CALIFORNIA 


State  Board  of  Pharmacy 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


This  pamphlet  contains  the  amendments  made  by  the  Legislature 
in  the  year  1915 

This  is  the  latest  official  information.    Destroy  all  previous  issues. 


JULY  1,  1915 


Robert  L.  Telfer,  Superintendent  of  State  Printing 

SACRAMENTO,    CALIFORNIA 

1915 


CALIFORNIA 


State  Board  of  Pharmacy 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


This  pamphlet  contains  the  amendments  made  by  the  Legislature 
in  the  year  1915 

This  is  the  latest  official  information.     Destroy  all  previous  issues 


JULY  1,  1915 


Robert  L.  Telfer,  Superintendent  of  State  Printing 

SACE  \  M  I  \  in,    CALIFORNIA 
1915 


CONTEXTS. 

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REGULATING  THE  PRACTICE  OF  PHARMACY 3  to  12 

SALE  OF  POISONS 13  to  22 

ITINERANT  VENDORS 23  to  24 

HOURS    OF   PHARMACISTS 25 

OFFICIAL  ANTIDOTES 26  to  30 

CIRCULAR  OF  INFORMATION— 

Pharmacy  Law 31  to  37 

Poison  Law 38  to  39 


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Pharmacy,  San  Francisco,   Cat.  oict, 


REGULATING  THE  PRACTICE  OF  PHARMACY 


Chapter  406  ( Stats.  1905,  p.  535  i .  approved  March  20,  1905. 
Chapter  423  (Stats.  1907,  p.  7GG).  approved  March  21,  1907. 
Chapter  675  (Stats.  1909,  p.  1013),  approved  April  21,  1909. 
Chapter  529   (Stats.  1915,  p.  865),  approved  May  27.  1915. 

An  act  to  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  the  State  of  California,  and  to  provide 
a  penalty  for  the  violation  thereof;  and  for  the  appointment  of  a  board  to  be 
known    as   the    California    State    Board    of    Pharmacy. 

The   people   of   the   State   of   California,   represented   in   senate   and 
assembly,  do  enact  as  follows: 

Section  1.  From  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act  it  shall  be 
unlawful  for  any  person  to  manufacture,  compound,  sell,  or  dispense 
any  drug,  poison,  medicine  or  chemical,  or  to  dispense  or  compound 
any  prescription  of  a  medical  practitioner,  unless  such  person  be  a 
registered  pharmacist  or  a  registered  assistant  pharmacist  within  the 
meaning  of  this  act,  except  as  hereinafter  provided.  Every  store, 
dispensary,  pharmacy,  laboratory  or  office  far  the  sale,  dispensing 
or  compounding  of  drugs,  medicines  or  chemicals,  or  for  the  dis- 
pensing of  prescriptions  of  medical  practitioners,  shall  be  in  charge 
of  a  registered  pharmacist.  A  registered  assistant  pharmacist  may 
be  left  in  charge  of  a  store,  dispensary,  pharmacy,  laboratory  or  office 
for  the  sale,  dispensing,  or  compounding  of  drugs,  medicines  or  chem- 
icals or  for  the  dispensing  of  prescriptions  of  medical  practitioners 
only  during  the  temporary  absence  of  the  registered  pharmacist.  Tem- 
porary absence  within  the  meaning  of  this  act  shall  be  held  to  be  only 
those  unavoidable  absences  which  may  occur  during  a  day's  work,  and 
when  the  registered  pharmacist  in  charge  shall  be  within  immediate 
call,  ready  and  able  to  assume  the  direct  supervision  of  said  pharmacy. 
No  registered  assistant  shall  conduct  a  pharmacy.  Every  store  or  shop 
where  drugs,  medicines  or  chemicals  are  dispensed  or  sold  at  retail, 
or  displayed  for  sale  at  retail,  or  where  prescriptions  are  compounded, 
which  has  upon  it  or  in  it  as  a  sign,  the  words  "pharmacist,"  "phar- 
maceutical chemist,"  "apothecary,"  "druggist."  "pharmacy,"  "drug 
store,"  "drugs"  or  any  of  these  words,  or  the  characteristic  show- 
bottles  or  globes,  either  colored  or  filled  with  colored  liquids,  shall  be 
deemed  a  "pharmacy"  w^Jim  ±h£  ineajiing  of  this  act. 


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Sec.  2.  Any  person  in  order  to  be  a  registered  pharmacist  must 
be  a  licentiate  in  pharmacy,  or  a  practicing  pharmacist. 

Sec.  3.  Licentiates  in  pharmacy  are  persons  who  have  had  five 
years'  experience  in  stores  where  the  prescriptions  of  medical  practi- 
tioners are  compounded,  and  shall  have  passed  an  examination  before 
the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  or  who  shall  present  satisfactory  evidence 
to  the  said  board  that  they  have  had  twenty  years'  actual  experience 
in  the  practice  of  pharmacy,  and  have  also  been  registered  as  a  licen- 
tiate, or  assistant  pharmacist  in  good  standing  in  any  state  or  territory 
for  a  period  of  at  least  ten  years  prior  to  the  date  of  their  application ; 
provided,  that  graduates  from  a  reputable  college  of  pharmacy  may  be 
registered  after  eighteen  years  of  like  experience.  Practicing  pharma- 
cists are  persons  who,  at  the  passage  of  this  act,  are  registered  as  such, 
and  who  shall  have  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  January  next  succeed- 
ing the  passage  of  this  act,  paid  to  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  of  this 
state  all  moneys  due  for  renewal  of  registration  as  required  by  the  acts 
of  the  legislature  regulating  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  the  State 
of  California,  approved  March  11,  1891,  and  March  15,  1901. 

Sec.  4.  Registered  assistant  pharmacists  are  persons  who  at  the 
time  of  the  passage  of  this  act  are  already  registered  as  such,  and  who 
shall  have  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  January  next  succeeding  the 
passage  of  this  act  paid  to  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  of  this  state  all 
moneys  due  for  renewal  of  registration  as  required  by  the  acts  of  the 
legislature  regulating  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, approved  March  11.  1891,  and  March  15,  1901;  provided,  that 
no  person  shall  be  examined  or  registered  as  a  licentiate,  unless  such 
person  has  had  five  years'  pharmaceutical  experience  in  a  pharmacy 
under  the  supervision  of  a  registered  pharmacist ;  and  provided  further, 
that  no  person  shall  be  examined  or  registered  as  an  assistant  pharma- 
cist from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act  unless  such  person  shall  be 
not  less  than  eighteen  years  of  age  and  has  had  not  less  than  three 
years'  instruction  and  experience  in  a  pharmacy,  under  a  registered 
pharmacist ;  or  has  been  registered  as  an  apprentice  as  provided  in 
section  15  of  this  act  for  not  less  than  three  years ;  and  provided  fur- 
ther, that  an  applicant  for  registration  as  an  assistant  pharmacist  must 
first  pass  a  satisfactory  examination  before  the  Board  of  Pharmacy. 

Sec.  5.  The  Governor  shall  appoint  seven  competent  registered 
pharmacists,  residing  in  different  parts  of  the  state,  to  serve  as  a 
board  of  pharmacy.  The  members  of  the  board  shall,  within  thirty 
(30)  days  after  their  appointment,  individually  take  and  subscribe 
before  the  county  clerk,  in  the  county  in  which  they  individually  reside, 
an  oath  faithfully  and  impartially  to  discharge  the  duties  prescribed  by 
this  act.  They  shall  hold  office  for  the  term  of  four  (4)  years,  and 
until  their  successors  are  appointed  and  have  qualified.     In  case  of 


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vacancy  in  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  the  Governor  shall  fill  the  same  by 
appointing  a  member  to  serve  for  the  remainder  of  the  term  only. 
The  office  of  the  board  shall  be  located  in  San  Francisco.  The  board 
shall  organize  by  electing  a  president,  a  secretary  and  a  treasurer.  The 
secretary  may  or  may  not  be  a  member  of  the  board,  as  the  board  in  its 
sound  discretion  shall  determine.  The  secretary  and  treasurer  shall 
each  give  a  satisfactory  bond  running  to  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  in  a 
sum  of  not  less  than  two  thousand  dollars,  and  such  greater  sum  as  the 
board  may  from  time  to  time  require  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  their 
respective  duties. 

Sec.  6.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  secretary  to  keep  a  book  of  reg- 
istration open  at  the  city  of  San  Francisco,  in  which  shall  be  entered 
under  the  supervision  of  the  board  the  names,  titles,  qualifications  and 
places  of  business  of  all  persons  coming  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act.  The  secretary  shall  give  receipts  for  all  moneys  received  by  him 
and  pay  the  same  to  the  treasurer  of  the  board,  taking  his  receipt  for 
the  same.  The  treasurer  shall  disburse  the  same  by  order  of  the  board 
for  necessary  expenses,  taking  proper  vouchers  therefor.  The  balance 
of  said  money,  after  paying  the  expenses  of  the  board,  he  shall  pay  to 
the  State  Treasurer,  who  shall  keep  it  in  a  special  fund  to  be  used  in 
carrying  out  the  provisions  of  this  act.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
secretary  of  the  board  to  erase  from  the  register  the  name  of  any  reg- 
istered pharmacist  or  assistant  pharmacist  who  has  died,  or  who  in 
the  opinion  of  the  board  has  forfeited  his  right  under  the  law  to  do 
business  in  this  state.  Besides  the  duties  required  by  this  act,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  secretary  to  perform  such  other  reasonable  duties 
appertaining  to  his  office  as  may  be  required  of  him  by  the  Board  of 
Pharmacy.  The  secretary  shall  receive  such  compensation  as  may  be 
fixed  by  the  Board  of  Pharmacy ;  if  he  be  a  member  of  the  board  then 
such  compensation  shall  be  in  addition  to  his  per  diem  as  a  member 
of  said  board. 

Sec.  7.  Four  members  of  the  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 
They  shall  hold  a  meeting  at  least  once  in  every  four  months. 

POWERS  AND  DUTIES  OP  THE  BOARD. 

Subdivision  1.     The  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  shall  have  power: 
(a)   To  make  such  by-laws  and  regulations,  not  inconsistent  with 
the  laws  of  this  state,  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  protection  of  the 
public,  appertaining  to  the  practice  of  pharmacy  and  the  lawful  per- 
formance of  its  duties. 

(&)   To  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy. 

(c)  To  regulate  the  sale  of  poisons. 

(d)  To  regulate  the  quality  of  all  pharmaceutical  preparations  and 
medicines  dispensed  in  this  state,  using  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia 
or  National  Formulary,  as  the  standard. 

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6  CALIFORNIA    STATE    BOARD    OF    PHARMACY. 

(e)  To  investigate  all  complaints  as  to  the  quality  and  strength 
of  all  pharmaceutical  preparations  and  medicines,  and  to  take  such 
action  as  may  be  necessary  to  prevent  the  sale  of  such  as  do  not  con- 
form to  the  standard  and  te?ts  prescribed  in  the  latest  edition  of  the 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia  or  National  Formulary. 

(/)  To  employ  inspectors  of  pharmacy  and  to  inspect  during  busi- 
ness hours  all  pharmacies,  dispensaries,  stores,  or  places  in  which 
drugs,  medicines  and  poisons  are  compounded,  dispensed  or  retailed, 
and  to  cause  the  prosecution  of  all  persons  whenever  there  appears 
to  the  board  to  be  reasonable  ground  for  such  action. 

(g)  To  examine  and  register  as  pharmacists  and  assistant  phar- 
macists all  applicants  whom  it  shall  deem  qualified  to  be  such.  All 
persons  applying  for  registration,  under  this  act,  shall  pay  the  follow- 
ing fees  therefor  to  the  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy.  Every  - 
applicant  for  registration,  other  than  that  of  an  apprentice,  shall  pay 
a  fee  of  ten  dollars  on  filing  his  or  her  application,  which  shall  be 
compensation  to  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  for  investigation  or  examina- 
tion of  the  applicant ;  and  if  the  board  finds  that  any  applicant  for 
registration  on  experience  and  credentials  is  entitled  to  be  registered, 
then  he  or  she  shall  pay  an  additional  fee  of  fifteen  dollars  upon  the 
issuance  of  certificate  of  such  registration ;  and  any  licentiate  found 
by  the  board  on  examination  to  be  entitled  to  a  certificate  shall  pay 
the  additional  sum  of  five  dollars  upon  the  issuance  of  certificate; 
all  applicants  for  examination  as  assistant,  if  found  satisfactory  by 
the  board,  shall  be  entitled  to  their  certificate  without  further  fee; 
and  provided  further,  that  an  applicant  for  registration  on  experience 
and  credentials  may  at  his  or  her  option  be  examined  as  a  licentiate 
without  further  fee  for  application. 

(h)  In  the  event  any  person  having  registered  shall  have  lost  his  or 
her  certificate,  or  the  same  has  been  destroj^ed,  or  if  he  or  she  desires 
the  renewal  of  the  same,  a  new  certificate  may  be  issued  by  said  board 
upon  the  applicant  paying  therefor  the  sum  of  three  dollars;  pro- 
vided further,  that  where  the  original  certificate  is  not  lost  or 
destroyed,  then  the  certificate  shall  be  surrendered  before  a  renewal 
of  same  shall  be  issued;  and  provided,  further,  that  the  board  shall 
have  power  to  require  satisfactory  evidence  from  the  applicant  of 
the  loss  or  destruction  of  the  certificate ;  and  provided  further,  that 
where  the  applicant  is  delinquent  for  the  annual  dues  required  by  this 
art  then  he  or  she  shall  be  required  to  pay  to  said  board  sufficient 
fees  to  cover  his  delinquency  in  that  behalf  before  he  or  she  shall  be 
entitled  to  a  reissue  of  the  certificate  in  this  subdivision  provided  for. 

(i)  To  provide  by  proper  rules  and  regulations  for  the  revocation 
by  said  board  of  licenses  issued  under  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
whenever  the  holder  of  such  license  shall  be  guilty  of  habitual  intern- 


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perance  or  addicted  to  the  use  of  narcotic  drugs,  or  shall  have  been 
convicted  of  a  felony. 

Sec.  8.  No  member  of  the  board  shall  teach  pharmacy  in  any  of 
its  branches,  unless  it  be  as  a  teacher  in  a  public  capacity  and  in  a 
college  of  pharmacy.  The  members  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  shall 
each  be  paid  the  sum  of  eight  dollars  per  diem  for  every  meeting  of 
the  board  which  they  attend,  together  with  their  necessary  expenses, 
and  mileage  at  the  rate  of  five  cents  per  mile  for  each  mile  necessarily 
traveled.  All  compensation  of  members  and  all  other  expenses  of  the 
board  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  examination  and  registration  fees  and 
fines. 

Sec.  9.  Every  person  holding  a  certificate  from  said  board  shall 
renew  annually  their  registration  with  said  board ;  and  every  registered 
pharmacist,  and  every  assistant  registered  pharmacist  who  desires  to 
retain  his  registration  on  the  books  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  in  this 
state  shall  annually,  after  the  expiration  of  the  first  year's  registration 
and  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  July  of  each  succeeding  year,  pay  to 
the  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  a  renewal  fee,  to  be  fixed  by 
the  board,  which  shall  not  exceed  two  dollars  for  registered  pharma- 
cist and  one  dollar  for  assistant  registered  pharmacist,  in  return  for 
which  fee  a  renewal  certificate  of  registration  shall  be  issued.  In 
case  any  person  defaults  in  payment  of  said  fee  his  or  her  registration 
may  be  revoked  by  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  on  sixty  days'  notice,  in 
writing  from  the  secretary,  unless  within  said  time  the  fee  is  paid, 
together  with  such  penany,  not  exceeding  ten  dollars,  as  the  board  may 
impose.  Upon  payment  of  said  fee  and  penalty  the  board  must  rein- 
state the  delinquent's  registration.  No  person  having  received,  or 
who  may  hereafter  receive  a  certificate  of  registration  as  a  pharmacist 
or  assistant  pharmacist,  shall  engage  in  business  as  pharmacist  or 
assistant  pharmacist,  in  any  county  of  this  state  in  which  he  or  she 
shall  locate,  or  into  which  he  or  she  shall  afterwards  remove,  until  he 
or  she  shall  have  had  such  certificate  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  county 
clerk  of  such  county,  and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  county 
clerk  to  record  such  certificate  in  a  book  to  be  provided  and  kept  for 
that  purpose,  and  the  county  clerk  is  authorized  to  charge  a  fee  of  fifty 
cents  for  the  recording  of  such  certificate — to  be  paid  by  the  person 
offering  such  certificate  for  record.  Each  pharmacist  or  assistant  phar- 
maeist  holding  a  certificate  of  registration  as  a  pharmacist,  or  assistant 
pharmacist,  and  being  engaged  in  business  as  a  pharmacist,  or  assistant 
pharmacist,  shall  have  such  certificate  recorded,  as  is  in  this  section 
provided,  within  thirty  days  after  the  taking  effect  of  this  act.  The 
record  of  the  certificate  required  by  this  section,  or  a  certified  copy 
thereof,  shall  be  evidence  in  all  courts  that  the  person  holding  it  was 
registered  as  evidenced  by  said  certificate  on  the  date  of  the  same.     Any 


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registered  pharmacist  or  assistant  registered  pharmacist  failing  to 
comply  with  any  of  the  foregoing  provisions  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of 
a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  fined  not  less  than 
five  dollars  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars.  Upon  the  certificate 
being  recorded  as  herein  provided,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county 
clerk  to  notify  the  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  of  the  name 
of  the  party  and  the  date  of  such  record. 

Sec.  10.  Every  person  upon  receiving  a  certificate  of  registration 
under  this  act,  or  who  has  heretofore  received  a  certificate  of  regis- 
tration in  this  state,  shall  keep  his  last  receipt  for  re-registration  con- 
spicuously exposed  in  his  place  of  business.  Every  registered  phar- 
macist, and  assistant  pharmacist,  shall  within  thirty  days  after  the 
changing  of  his  place  of  business  as  designated  on  the  books  of  the  Board 
of  Pharmacy,  notify  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  his  new  place  of  busi- 
ness, and  upon  receipt  of  said  notification  the  secretary  shall  make 
the  necessary  change  in  his  register. 

Sec.  11.  Every  proprietor  or  manager  of  a  pharmacy  or  drug  store 
shall  be  held  responsible  for  the  quality  of  all  drugs,  chemicals  and 
medicines  sold  or  dispensed  by  him,  except  those  sold  in  the  original 
package  of  the  manufacturer  and  except  those  articles  or  preparations 
known  as  patent  or  proprietary  medicines.  Any  person  who  shall 
knowingly,  wilfully,  or  fraudulently  falsify  or  adulterate,  or  cause 
to  be  falsified  or  adulterated,  any  drug  or  medicinal  substance,  or  any 
preparation  authorized  or  recognized  by  the  pharmacopoeia  of  the 
United  States  or  used,  or  intended  to  be  used,  in  medical  practice,  or 
shall  mix  or  cause  to  be  mixed,  with  any  such  drug  or  medicinal  sub- 
stance any  foreign  or  inert  substance  whatever,  for  the  purpose  of 
destroying  or  weakening  its  medicinal  power  or  effect,  or  of  lessening 
its  cost,  and  shall  wilfully,  knowingly,  or  fraudulently  sell  the  same, 
or  cause  it  to  be  sold,  for  medicinal  purposes,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  fifty  dollars  and  not  more  than  two  hundred  dollars,  or 
by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than  fifty  days  and  not  more  than  two 
hundred  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment.  Every  regis- 
tered pharmacist  shall  file  or  cause  to  be  filed  all  physicians'  prescrip- 
tions, or  a  copy  thereof,  compounded  or  dispensed  in  his  pharmacy  or 
store,  and  any  person  who  shall  wilfully  fail  so  to  do  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  liable 
to  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars;  and  for  each  subsequent  offense 
shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty  dollars,  and  not  more  than 
one  hundred  dollars.  The  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  may  at  any  time, 
when  in  their  judgment  it  appears  advisable,  deputize  one  of  their 
members,  or  any  other  competent  person,  to  investigate  any  suspected 
violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and  if  the  result  of  such 


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investigation  seems  to  the  board  to  justify  such  action  the  board  shall 
cause  the  prosecution  of  any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  act. 

Sec.  12.  Any  person  who  shall  attempt  to  secure,  or  secures  regis- 
tration for  himself  or  any  other  person  under  this  act  by  making  or 
causing  to  be  made  any  false  representations,  or  who  shall  fraudulently 
represent  himself  to  be  registered,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  liable  to  punishment  by 
a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  a 
term  not  exceeding  fifty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 
Any  person  who  shall  permit  the  compounding  of  prescriptions  of 
medical  practitioners,  or  the  selling  of  drugs  and  medicines,  in  his  or 
her  store  or  pharmacy,  except  under  the  direct,  immediate  and  personal 
supervision  of  a  registered  pharmacist,  or  any  person  not  registered 
who  shall  retail  medicine,  poisons  or  chemicals,  except  in  a  pharmacy 
under  the  direct,  immediate  and  personal  supervision  of  a  registered 
pharmacist,  or  any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
when  no  other  penalty  is  provided,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  liable  to  punishment  by 
a  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty  dollars,  and  not  more  than  one  hundred 
dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  of  not  exceeding  fifty  days,  or  by  both 
such  fine  and  imprisonment.  All  fines  recoverable  under  this  act  shall 
be  paid  by  the  magistrate  receiving  the  same  to  the  State  Board  of 
Pharmacy.  Any  person  convicted  of  violating  the  provisions  of  this 
act  the  third  time  shall  in  addition  to  the  penalties  hereinbefore  men- 
tioned have  his  or  her  registration  as  a  pharmacist  canceled.  Nothing 
in  this  act  shall  apply  to  or  interfere  with  any  practitioner  of  medicine 
who  is  duly  registered  as  such  by  the  State  Board  of  Medical  Exam- 
iners of  this  state  with  supplying  his  own  patients,  as  their  physician, 
and  by  them  employed  as  such,  with  such  remedies  as  he  may  desire, 
and  who  does  not  keep  a  pharmacy,  open  shop,  or  drug  store,  adver- 
tised or  otherwise  for  the  retailing  of  medicines  or  poisons,  nor  does 
this  act  apply  to  the  exclusively  wholesale  business  of  any  dealer.  Nor 
does  this  act  apply  to  registered,  trade-marked  or  copyrighted  proprie- 
tary medicines,  registered  in  the  United  States  Patent  Office  nor  to 
the  sale  of  proprietary  medicines,  when  manufactured  under  the  super- 
vision of  a  registered  pharmacist  in  the  State  of  California,  for  which 
trade-marks  may  have  been  filed  with  the  Secretary  of  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, by  merchants  possessing  a  license  issued  by  the  Board  of 
Pharmacy  as  described  in  section  sixteen  of  this  act. 

Sec.  13.  Any  proprietor  of  a  pharmacy  who  shall  fail,  or  neglect 
to  place  in  charge  of  such  pharmacy  a  registered  pharmacist,  or  any 
proprietor  who  shall,  by  himself  or  any  other  person,  permit  the  com- 
pounding  of   prescriptions,    or   the   vending   of   drugs,   medicines,    or 


10  CALIFORNIA   STATE    BOARD   OF   PHARMACY. 

poisons,  in  his  or  her  store,  or  place  of  business,  except  by  or  in  the 
presence  and  under  the  direct,  immediate  and  personal  supervision 
of  a  registered  pharmacist,  or  any  person  not  being  a  registered  phar- 
macist, who  shall  take  charge  of,  or  act  as  manager  of  any  pharmacy, 
or  store,  or  who,  not  being  a  registered  pharmacist,  retails,  compounds, 
or  dispenses  drugs,  medicines,  or  poisons,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  twenty  (20)  dollars  and  not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars, 
or  by  imprisonment  for  a  term  not  exceeding  fifty  days,  or  by  both 
such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Sec.  14.  Any  member  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  or  inspector  duly 
authorized  by  said  board,  may  examine  applicants  orally,  or  in  writing, 
and  issue  a  temporary  certificate  to  practice  pharmacy,  which  shall 
authorize  such  practice  for  a  period  not  to  exceed  four  months  from 
its  date.  The  issuance  of  such  temporary  certificate  shall  not  entitle 
the  holder  thereof  to  a  permanent  certificate,  and  no  permanent  cer- 
tificate shall  be  issued  to  such  holder  until  he  passes  a  satisfactory 
examination  by  the  board.  Only  one  temporary  certificate  shall  ever 
be  issued  to  the  same  applicant,  and  no  temporary  certificate  shall  be 
granted  to  any  person  whose  application  has  been  denied  by  the  board. 
The  member  or  authorized  inspector  conducting  the  examination  as 
herein  set  forth  shall  be  entitled  to  charge  and  receive  the  sum  of 
three  dollars  for  such  certificate,  said  moneys  to  be  paid  to  the  Board 
of  Pharmacy. 

Sec.  15.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  registered  pharmacists  who  take 
into  their  employ  an  apprentice,  whose  purpose  it  is  to  become  a  phar- 
macist, to  report  to  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  such  facts  regarding  his 
schooling  and  preliminary  qualifications  as  the  Board  of  Pharmacy 
may  require  for  the  purpose  of  registration  as  an  apprentice.  The 
Board  of  Pharmacy  shall  adopt  a  standard  of  qualifications  regarding 
schooling  and  preliminary  qualifications  for  all  persons  desiring  to  be 
registered  as  apprentices,  as  provided  for  in  this  section.  The  pharma- 
ceutical experience  of  every  apprentice  shall,  after  the  passage  of  this 
act,  be  deemed  to  begin  on  the  date  on  which  he  began  the  study  of 
pharmacy,  and  such  date  shall  be  inserted  in  the  certificate  of  registra- 
tion of  said  apprentice ;  provided,  the  preliminary  qualifications  have 
been  found  satisfactory  by  the  board.  Sworn  testimony  shall  be  fur- 
nished the  board  upon  which  they  shall  determine  the  date  as  aforesaid. 
The  date  so  determined  and  entered  as  aforesaid  shall  be  deemed  to  be 
the  beginning  of  the  applicant's  pharmaceutical  experience  for  the  pur- 
pose of  this  act ;  provided,  that  the  students  matriculating  and  attend- 
ing any  reputable  college  of  pharmacy  shall  be  registered  as  apprentices 
upon  such  fact  being  shown.  The  board  shall  keep  a  register  for  the 
registration  of  apprentices  and  furnish  upon  application  proper  blanks 


STATUTES   REGULATING   PRACTICE   OP    PHARMACY.  11 

for  this  purpose.  No  apprentice  shall  be  permitted  to  sell  drugs,  medi- 
cines, or  poisons,  or  compound  prescriptions  except  under  the  direct, 
immediate  and  personal  supervision  of  a  registered  pharmacist.  No 
registered  apprentice  shall  ever  be  left  in  charge  of  a  pharmacy.  Xo 
applicant  for  registration  as  an  apprentice  shall  be  registered  as  such 
if  such  applicant  has  had  more  than  three  years'  experience  in  a 
pharmacy,  but  must  apply  for  registration  as  assistant  pharmacist. 

Sec.  16.  The  Board  of  Pharmacy  shall  issue  a  permit  to  general 
dealers  in  rural  districts  in  which  the  conditions,  in  their  judgment, 
do  not  justify  the  employment  of  a  registered  pharmacist,  and  where 
the  store  of  such  general  dealer  is  not  less  than  three  miles  distant 
from  the  store  of  a  registered  pharmacist ;  which  said  permit  shall 
authorize  the  persons  or  firm  named  therein  to  sell  in  such  locality. 
but  not  elsewhere,  and  under  such  restrictions  and  regulations  as  said 
board  may  from  time  to  time  adopt,  the  following  simple  household 
remedies  and  drugs,  and  no  other,  in  such  manner  and  form  as  may 
be  hereafter  authorized  by  said  board,  as  follows,  to  wit : 

Tincture  of  arnica,  spirits  of  camphor,  almond  oil,  distilled  extract 
witch-hazel,  paregoric,  syrup  of  ipecac,  syrup  of  rhubarb,  hive  syrup, 
sweet  spirits  of  nitre,  tincture  of  iron,  epsom  salts,  Rochelle  salts, 
senna  leaves,  carbonate  of  magnesia,  seidlitz  powders,  quinine,  cathartic 
pills,  chamomile  flowers,  caraway  seed,  chlorate  of  potash,  moth  balls, 
plasters,  salves,  ointments,  peroxide  of  hydrogen,  copperas,  gum 
camphor,  blue  ointment,  asafcetida,  saffron,  anise  seed,  saltpeter. 

The  board  shall  charge  an  annual  fee  of  five  dollars  in  advance  for 
such  permit,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  dealer  to  sell  any  drugs 
or  ordinary  household  remedies  without  complying  with  the  require- 
ments of  this  section.  Whenever  a  registered  pharmacist  shall  estab- 
lish a  pharmacy  within  three  miles  by  the  shortest  road  from  the  place 
of  business  of  such  dealer,  no  further  license  shall  be  granted,  and  the 
license  already  issued  shall  be  void ;  provided,  that  the  fallowing  drugs, 
medicines  and  chemicals  may  be  sold  by  grocers  and  dealers  generally 
without  restriction,  viz: 

Glauber  salts,  vaseline,  turpentine,  condition  powders,  cream  of  tar- 
tar, carbonate  of  soda,  bay  rum,  essence  of  Jamaica  ginger,  essence  of 
peppermint,  ammonia,  alum,  castor  oil,  bicarbonate  of  soda,  chloride 
of  lime,  glycerine,  witch-hazel,  sheep  dip,  borax,  sulphur,  Milestone, 
flaxseed,  insect  powder,  fly  paper,  ant  poison,  squirrel  poison,  an. I 
gopher  poison,  and  arsenical  poisons  used  for  orchard  spraying,  when 
prepared  and  sold  only  in  original  and  unbroken  packages  and  labeled 
with  the  official  poison  labels. 

Sec.  17.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  by  reso- 
lution, at  least  annually  to  request  of  the  chief  of  police,  marshal  or 
constable  of  every  city,  town  or  township  in  this  state,  to  furnish  a  list 


12  CALIFORNIA    STATE    BOARD    OF    PHARMACY. 

of  all  drug  stores,  together  with  the  names  of  the  owners,  managers, 
and  all  employees  in  said  stores,  and  a  brief  statement  of  the  capacity 
in  which  said  persons  are  employed  in  said  stores,  and  also  the  firm 
name  of  all  stares  retailing  drugs,  medicines  or  poisons.  Upon  such 
request  in  writing,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  police,  marshal, 
or  constable  of  said  city,  town  or  township  to  require  the  patrolmen  or 
deputies  under  their  command,  upon  their  respective  beats,  to  obtain 
such  lists  as  are  in  this  section  specified,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the 
Board  of  Pharmacy.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  owner  or  manager 
of  any  drug  store  or  other  store  retailing  drugs,  medicines  or  poisons, 
when  called  upon  by  an  officer  as  above  set  forth,  or  by  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Pharmacy  or  a  duly  authorized  inspector,  to  furnish  said 
officer,  member  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  or  duly  authorized  inspector 
with  the  information  required.  Any  person  refusing  to  furnish  the 
information,  or  wilfully  furnishing  information  that  is  false  or  untrue, 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more 
than  fifty  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than  ten  days  and 
not  more  than  thirty-five  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Sec.  18.  The  several  penalties  prescribed  in  this  act  may  be  re- 
covered in  any  court  having  jurisdiction,  by  a  civil  action  instituted 
by  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  in  the  name  of  the  State  of  California,  or 
by  criminal  prosecution  upon  complaint  being  made;  and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  district  attorney  of  the  county  wherein  violations  of 
the  provisions  of  this  act  occur  to  conduct  all  such  actions  and  prose- 
cutions at  the  request  of  the  board. 

Sec.  19.  All  persons  registered  under  this  act  shall  be  exempt  and 
free  from  jury  duty. 

Sec.  20.  This  act  shall  take  effect  sixty  days  from  the  date  of  its 
approval. 


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SALE  OF  POISONS 


Chapter  102    (Stats.  1907,  p.     124),   approved   .March     6,  1907. 
Chapter  279    (Stats.   1909.  p.     422),   approved   March  19,   1909. 
Chapter  5S3    (Stats.  1911,   p.  1106),  approved   April  25,   1911. 
Chapter  342    (Stats.  1913,  p.     692),  approved  June   11,  1913. 
Chapter  605  (Stats.  1915,  p.  1066),  approved  June  1.  1915. 

An   act   to   regulate  the  sale   and    use   of   poisons   in   the  State  of  California   and   pro- 
viding  a    penalty  for  the  violation   thereof. 

Th(    people   of   the   State   of   California,   represented   in   senate   and 
assembly,  do  enact  as  follows: 

Section  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  vend,  sell,  give 
away  or  furnish,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  any  poisons  enumerated 
in  schedules  "A"  and  "B"  in  section  seven  of  this  act  as  hereinafter 
set  forth,  without  labeling  the  package,  box,  bottle  or  paper  in  which 
said  poison  is  contained,  with  the  name  of  the  article,  the  word 
"poison,"  and  the  name  and  place  of  business  of  the  person  furnishing 
the  same.  Said  label  shall  be  substantially  in  the  form  hereinafter 
provided.  It  shall  be  unlawful  to  sell  or  deliver  any  of  the  poisons 
named  in  schedule  "A"  or  any  other  dangerously  poisonous  drug, 
chemical,  or  medicinal  substance,  which  may  from  time  to  time  be 
designated  by  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  of  California,  unless  on 
inquiry  it  is  found  that  the  person  desiring  the  same  is  aware  of  its 
poisonous  character,  and  it  satisfactorily  appears  that  it  is  to  be  used 
for  a  legitimate  purpose.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  give 
j,  fictitious  name  or  make  any  false  representations  to  the  seller  or  dealer 
when  buying  any  of  the  poisons  thus  enumerated ;  provided,  that  this 
prohibition  shall  not  apply  to  an  officer  or  inspector  of  the  State  Board 
of  Pharmacy  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  enjoined  by  law  upon 
said  board,  or  to  any  person  acting  under  authority  of  said  board  in 
the  performance  of  said  duties.  Printed  notice  of  all  such  additions  to 
the  schedule  of  poisons  named  and  provided  for  in  this  section,  and  the 
antidote  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  for  such  poisons  shall  be 
given  to  all  registered  pharmacists  with  the  next  following  renewal  of 
their  certificates.  It  shall  be  unlawful  to  sell  or  deliver  any  poison 
included  in  schedule  "A"  or  the  additions  thereto,  without  making  or 
causing  to  be  made,  an  entry  in  a  book  kept  solely  for  that  purpose, 
stating  the  date  and  hour  of  sale,  and  the  name,  address  and  signature 
of  the  purchaser,  the  name  and  quantity  of  the  poison  sold,  the  state- 
ment by  the  purchaser  of  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  required,  and  the 
name  of  the  dispenser,  who  must  be  a  duly  registered  pharmacist ;  pro- 
vided, however,  that  said  entry  shall  be  made  out  ir  full,  in  ink  before 
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14  CALIFORNIA   STATE   BOARD   OF   PHARMACY. 

said  signature  of  the  purchaser  is  made  thereto,  and  that  said  entry 
shall  be  made  by  said  dispenser  himself,  and  not  by  any  person  who  is 
not  a  duly  registered  pharmacist  or  duly  registered  assistant  pharmacist. 
Said  book  shall  be  in  form  substantially  as  follows: 


Date 
and  hour. 


Name  of 
purchaser. 


Residence. 


Kind  and 
quantity. 


Purpose 
of  use. 


Signature     Signature  of 
of  druggist,    purchaser. 


This  book  shall  always  be  open  for  inspection  by  the  proper 
authorities,  and  shall  be  preserved  for  at  least  five  years  after  the  date 
of  the  last  entry  therein. 

Sec.  2.  The  label  required  by  this  act,  to  be  placed  on  all  packages 
of  poison,  shall  be  printed  upon  red  paper  in  distinct  white  letters,  or 
in  distinct  red  letters  upon  white  paper,  and  shall  contain  the  word 
"poison,"  the  "vignette"  representing  the  skull  and  cross-bones,  and 
the  name  and  address  of  the  person  or  firm  selling  the  same.  The 
name  of  an  antidote,  if  any  there  be,  for  the  poison  sold,  shall  also 
be  upon  the  package.  No  poison  shall  be  sold  or  delivered  to  any 
person  who  is  less  than  eighteen  years  of  age. 

Sec.  3.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  to 
adopt  a  schedule  of  what  in  their  judgment  are  the  most  suitable 
common  antidotes  for  the  various  poisons  usually  sold.  After  the 
board  has  adopted  the  schedule  of  antidotes  as  herein  provided  for. 
they  shall  have  the  same  printed  and  shall  forward  by  mail  one  copy  to 
each  person  registered  upon  their  books,  and  to  any  other  person  apply- 
ing for  the  same.  The  particular  antidote  adopted  (and  no  other)  shall 
appear  on  the  poison  label  provided  for  in  section  two  of  this  act,  or 
be  attached  to  the  package  containing  said  poison.  The  board  shall 
have  power  to  revise  and  amend  the  list  of  antidotes  from  time  to  time, 
as  to  them  may  seem  advisable.  The  entries  in  the  poison  book  and 
the  printed  or  written  matter  provided  for  in  sections  two  and  three 
of  this  act  shall  be  in  the  English  language;  provided,  that  the  vendor 
of  said  poison  may  enter  the  same  in  any  foreign  language  he  may 
desire,  in  addition  to  said  entry  and  label  in  English. 

Sec.  4.  When  in  the  opinion  of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  it  is 
in  the  interest  of  the  public  health,  they  are  hereby  empowered  to 
further  restrict,  or  prohibit  the  retail  sale  of  any  poison  by  rules,  not 
inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  by  them  to  be  adopted,  and 
which  rules  must  be  applicable  to  all  persons  alike.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  board,  upon  request,  to  furnish  any  dealer  with  a  copy  of  the 
laws  relating  to  articles,  preparations  and  compounds,  the  sale  of  which 
is  prohibited  or  regulated  by  this  act. 

Sec.  5.  Wholesale  dealers  and  pharmacists  shall  affix  or  cause  to  be 
affixed  to  every  bottle,  box,  parcel  or  other  enclosure  of  an  original 


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package  containing  any  of  the  articles  named  in  schedule  "A"  the 
additions  thereto,  or  in  sections  eight  and  nine  of  this  act,  a  suitable 
label,  or  brand,  with  the  word  "poison,"  but  they  are  hereby  exempted 
from  the  registration  of  the  sale  of  such  articles  when  sold  at  wholesale 
to  a  registered  pharmacist,  physician,  dentist  or  veterinary  surgeon 
duly  licensed  to  practice  in  the  state;  provided,  that  the  provisions  of 
this  act  shall  not  apply  to  the  sale  of  such  upon  the  prescriptions  of 
practicing  physicians,  dentists  or  veterinary  surgeons  who  are  duly 
licensed  to  practice  in  this  state. 

Sec.  6.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  district  attorney  of  the 
county  wherein  any  violation  of  this  act  is  committed,  to  conduct  all 
actions  and  prosecutions  for  the  same,  at  the  request  of  the  Board  of 
Pharmacy;  provided,  however,  that  the  board  may  employ  special 
counsel  to  assist  the  district  attorney  in  such  actions  and  prosecutions. 

Sec.  7.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  sections  eight 
or  eight  a  of  this  act  shall  upon  conviction  be  guilty  of  and  shall  be 
punished  as  follows,  viz:  for  the  first  offense  said  person  so  con- 
victed shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  not  to  exceed 
four  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than  fifty  days 
and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  eighty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine 
and  imprisonment ;  for  the  second  offense  said  person  so  convicted  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  not  to  exceed  five 
hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than  ninety  days  and 
not  exceeding  six  months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment :  and 
for  the  third  offense  said  person  so  convicted  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a  felony  and  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  state  prison 
for  not  less  than  one  year  and  not  more  than  five  years.  Any  person 
violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  except  those  contained  in 
sections  eight  or  eight  a,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and 
upon  conviction  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  thirty  dollars. 
nor  more  than  two  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less 
than  thirty  days  and  not  more  than  fifty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment.  All  moneys,  forfeited  bail  or  fines,  received  under  the 
operation  of  this  act  shall  be  paid  by  the  magistrate  receiving  same, 
seventy-five  per  cent  to  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  and  twenty-five 
per  cent  to  the  city  treasurer  of  the  city,  if  incorporated,  or  to  the 
county  treasurer  of  the  county  in  which  the  prosecution  is  conducted. 
The  following  is  schedule  "A"  referred  to  in  section  one,  viz:  Schedule 
"A,"  arsenic,  its  compounds  and  preparations,  corrosive  sublimate,  and 
other  poisonous  derivatives  of  mercury,  cyanide  of  potassium,  strych- 
nine, hydrocyanic  acid,  oils  of  eroton,  rue,  savin,  and  tansy,  phosphorus 
and   its   poisonous   derivatives    and    compounds,   strophanthus    or    its 


16  CALIFORNIA   STATE    BOARD    OF    PHARMACY. 

preparations,  aconite,  belladonna,  mix  vomica,  veratrum  viride,  their 
preparations,  alkaloids  or  derivatives,  ant  poison  containing  any  of  the 
poisons  enumerated  in  this  schedule. 

The  following  is  schedule  "B":  Hydrochloric  or  muriatic  acid, 
nitric  acid,  oxalic  acid,  sulphuric  acid,  bromine,  chloroform,  cowhage, 
creosote,  ether,  solution  of  formaldehyde  or  formalin ;  cantharides, 
cocculus  indicus,  all  their  preparations ;  iodine,  or  its  tinctures,  oil  of 
pennyroyal,  tartar  emetic,  and  other  poisonous  derivatives  of  anti- 
mony, sugar  of  lead,  sulphate  of  zinc,  wood  alcohol,  lysol  and  com- 
pound solution  of  cresol. 

Sec.  8.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation 
to  sell,  furnish  or  give  away  or  offer  to  sell,  furnish  or  give  away  or  to 
have  in  their  or  his  possession  any  cocaine,  opium,  morphine,  codeine, 
heroin,  alpha  eucaine,  beta  eueaine,  nova  caine,  flowering  tops 
and  leaves,  extracts,  tinctures  and  other  narcotic  preparations  of  hemp 
or  loco  weed  (Cannabis  sativa),  Indian  hemp,  or  chloral  hydrate  or  any 
of  the  salts,  derivatives  or  compounds  of  the  foregoing  substances  or 
any  preparation  or  compound  containing  any  of  the  foregoing  sub- 
stances or  their  salts,  derivatives  or  compounds  excepting  upon  the 
written  order  or  prescription  of  a  physician,  dentist  or  veterinary 
surgeon,  licensed  to  practice  in  this  state,  which  order  or  prescription 
shall  be  dated  and  shall  contain  the  name  of  the  person  for  whom  pre- 
scribed, written  in  by  the  person  writing  said  prescription,  or  if  ordered 
by  a  veterinary  surgeon  it  shall  state  the  kind  of  animal  for  which 
ordered  and  shall  be  signed  by  the  person  giving  the  prescription 
or  order.  Such  order  or  prescription  shall  be  permanently  retained 
on  file  by  the  person,  firm  or  corporation  who  shall  compound  or  dis- 
pense the  articles  ordered  or  prescribed,  and  it  shall  not  be  again 
compounded  or  dispensed  if  each  fluid  or  avoirdupois  ounce  contains 
more  than  two  grains  of  opium  or  one-quarter  grain  of  morphine,  or 
one  grain  of  codeine,  or  one-eighth  grain  of  heroin  or  ten  grains  of 
chloral  hydrate,  or  four  grains  of  Indian  hemp  or  loco  weed  excepting 
upon  the  written  order  of  the  preseriber  for  each  and  every  subsequent 
ci  mpounding  and  dispensing.  No  copy  or  duplicate  of  such  written 
order  or  prescription  shall  be  made  or  delivered  to  any  person  but  the 
original  shall  be  at  all  times  open  to  inspection  by  the  preseriber  and 
properly  authorized  officers  of  the  law  and  shall  be  preserved  for  at 
least  three  years  from  the  date  of  the  filing  thereof ;  provided,  that  the 
above  provisions  shall  not  apply  to  sales  at  wholesale  by  jobbers,  whole- 
salers and  manufacturers  to  pharmacies,  as  defined  in  section  one  of  an 
act  entitled  "An  act  to  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  the 
State  of  California  and  to  provide  a  penalty  for  the  violation  thereof; 
and  for  the  appointment  of  a  board  to  be  known  as  the  California 
State  Board  of  Pharmacy,"  approved  March  20,  1905,  and  acts  amend- 


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atory  thereof;  or  physicians,  nor  to  each  other,  nor  to  the  sale  at  retail 
in  pharmacies  by  pharmacists  to  physicians,  dentists  or  veterinary 
surgeons  duly  licensed  to  practice  in  this  state;  provided,  further,  that 
all  such  wholesale  jobbers,  wholesalers  and  manufacturers,  in  this 
section  mentioned  shall  keep  in  a  manner  readily  accessible,  the  writ- 
ten orders  or  blank  forms  required  to  be  preserved  under  the  pro- 
visions of  section  two  of  the  act  of  congress,  approved  December  17, 
1914,  relating  to  the  production,  importation,  manufacture,  compound- 
ing,  sale,  dispensing  or  giving  away  of  opium  or  coco  leaves  and  salts, 
derivatives  or  preparations.  And  said  records  shall  always  be  open 
for  inspection  by  any  peace  officer  or  any  member  of  the  Board  of 
Pharmacy  or  any  inspector  authorized  by  said  board  and  such  records 
shall  be  preserved  for  at  least  two  years  after  the  date  of  the  last  entry 
therein.  The  taking  of  any  order,  or  making  of  any  contract  or 
agreement,  by  any  traveling  representative,  or  any  employee,  of  any 
person,  firm  or  corporation,  for  future  delivery  in  this  state,  of  any 
of  the  articles  or  drugs  mentioned  in  this  section  shall  be  deemed  a 
sale  of  said  articles  or  drugs  by  said  traveling  representative,  or 
employee,  within  the  meaning  of  the  provision  of  this  act;  provided, 
further,  that  a  true  and  correct  copy  of  all  orders,  contracts  or  agree- 
ments taken  for  narcotic  drugs  specified  in  this  section  shall  be  for- 
warded by  registered  mail  to  the  secretary  of  the  California  State 
Board  of  Pharmacy  within  twenty-four  hours  after  the  taking  of  such 
order,  contract  or  agreement,  unless  such  order,  contract  or  agreement 
is  recorded  as  required  under  the  provisions  of  section  two  of  an  act 
of  congress,  approved  December  17,  1914,  relating  to  the  production, 
importation,  manufacture,  compounding,  sale,  dispensing  or  giving 
away  of  opium  or  coca  leaves,  their  salts,  derivatives  or  preparations 
of  some  wholesale  jobber,  wholesaler,  or  manufacturer  permanently 
located  in  this  state,  as  provided  for  in  this  section.  It  shall  be  unlaw- 
ful for  any  practitioner  of  medicine,  dentistry  or  veterinary  medicine 
to  furnish  to  or  prescribe  for  the  use  of  any  habitual  user  of  the  same, 
or  of  any  one  representing  himself  as  such,  any  cocaine,  opium,  mor- 
phine, codeine,  heroin,  or  chloral  hydrate,  or  any  salt,  derivative  or 
compound  of  the  foregoing  substances  or  their  salts,  derivatives  or 
compounds ;  and  it  shall  also  be  unlawful  for  any  practitioner  of 
medicine  or  dentistry  to  prescribe  any  of  the  foregoing  substances  for 
any  person  not  under  his  treatment  in  the  regular  practice  of  his 
profession,  or  for  any  veterinary  surgeon  to  prescribe  any  of  the  fore- 
going substances  for  the  use  of  any  human  being;  provided,  however, 
that  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  be  construed  to  prevent 
any  duly  licensed  physician  from  furnishing  or  prescribing  in  good 
faith  as  their  physician  by  them  employed  as  such,  for  any  habitual 


18  CALIFORNIA    STATE    BOARD    OF   PHARMACY. 

user  of  any  narcotic  drugs  who  is  under  his  professional  care,  such 
substances  as  he  may  deem  necessary  for  their  treatment,  when  such 
prescriptions  are  not  given  or  substances  furnished  for  the  purpose  of 
evading  the  purposes  of  this  act ;  provided,  that  such  licensed  physician 
shall  report  in  writing,  over  his  signature,  by  registered  mail,  to  the 
office  of  the  California  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  within  twenty-four 
hours  after  the  first  treatment,  each  and  every  habitual  user  of  such 
narcotic  drugs  as  are  enumerated  in  this  section,  whom  he  or  she  has 
taken,  in  good  faith,  under  his  or  her  professional  care,  for  the  cure 
of  such  habit,  such  report  to  contain  the  date,  name  and  address  of 
such  patient,  and  the  name  and  quantity  of  the  narcotic  or  narcotics 
prescribed  in  such  treatment;  provided,  further,  that  the  provision  im- 
mediately foregoing  shall  not  apply  to  any  licensed  physician  treat- 
ing such  habitue  in  good  faith  who  personally  administers  such  nar- 
cotics, enumerated  in  this  section,  after  writing  a  prescription  there- 
for; and  provided,  further,  that  the  above  provisions  shall  not  apply 
to  preparations  sold  or  dispensed  without  a  physician's  prescription 
containing  not  more  than  two  grains  of  opium,  or  one-fourth  grain  of 
morphine,  or  one  grain  of  codeine,  or  one-eighth  grain  of  heroin,  or 
ten  grains  chloral  hydrate  or  four  grains  of  Indian  hemp  or  loco  weed 
in  one  fluid  ounce  or,  if  a  solid  preparation,  in  one  ounce,  avoirdupois. 

Sec.  8a.  The  possession  of  a  pipe  or  pipes  used  for  smoking  opium 
(commonly  known  as  opium  pipes)  or  the  usual  attachment  or  attach- 
ments thereto,  or  other  contrivances  used  for  smoking  opium,  or 
extracts,  tinctures  or  other  narcotic  preparations  of  hemp,  or  loco  weed, 
their  preparations  or  compounds  containing  more  than  four  grains  to 
each  fluid  or  avoirdupois  ounce  (except  corn  remedies  containing  not 
more  than  fifteen  grains  of  the  extract  or  fluid  extract  of  hemp  to  the 
ounce,  mixed  with  not  less  than  five  times  its  weight  of  salicylic  acid 
combined  with  collodion),  is  hereby  made  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon 
conviction  thereof  shall  be  punishable  by  the  penalties  prescribed  in 
section  seven  of  this  act. 

Sec.  86.  All  narcotic  drugs  specified  in  section  eight  and  also  all 
pipes  used  for  smoking  opium  (commonly  known  as  opium  pipes)  or 
the  usual  attachments  thereto,  flowering  tops  and  leaves,  or  extracts, 
tinctures,  or  other  narcotic  preparations  of  hemp,  or  loco  weed,  their 
preparations  or  compounds  containing  more  than  four  grains  of  Indian 
hemp  or  loco  weed  to  each  fluid  or  avoirdupois  ounce  (except  corn 
remedies  containing  not  more  than  fifteen  grains  of  the  extract  or  fluid 
extract  of  hemp  to  the  ounce,  mixed  with  not  less  than  five  times  its 
weight  of  salicylic  acid  combined  with  collodion),  may  be  seized  by  any 
peace  officer,  and  in  aid  of  such  seizure  a  search  warrant  or  search 
warrants  may  be  issued  in  the  manner  and  form  prescribed  in  chapter 
three  of  title  twelve  of  part  two  of  the  Penal  Code.     All  such  narcotic 


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drugs,  pipes  used  far  smoking  opium  (commonly  known  as  opium 
pipes)  or  the  usual  attachments  thereto,  and  all  such  hemp  or  prepara- 
tion of  hemp  or  loco  weed  seized  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  be 
ordered  destroyed  by  the  judge  of  the  court  in  which  final  conviction 
was  had;  said  order  of  destruction  shall  contain  the  name  of  the  party 
charged  with  the  duty  of  destruction  as  herein  required;  provided, 
however,  that  the  judge  shall  turn  all  such  evidence  over  to  the  Cali- 
fornia State  Board  of  Pharmacy  for  such  destruction;  and  provided, 
further,  that  any  narcotic  drugs  specified  in  section  eight,  opium 
pipes  and  the  usual  attachments  thereto,  or  smoking  opium,  seized 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  now  in  the  possession  of  any  city  or 
county  official  or  officials,  or  the  California  State  Board  of  Pharmacy, 
or  which  may  hereafter  come  into  their  or  its  possession,  in  which  no 
trial  was  had,  shall  be  delivered  to  the  California  State  Board  of  Phar- 
macy for  destruction  by  said  board;  provided,  however,  that  none  of 
the  narcotic  drugs  specified  in  section  eight,  opium  pipes  and  the  usual 
attachments  thereto,  or  smoking  opium  coming  into  the  possession  of 
said  board,  as  above  described,  shall  not  be  destroyed  within  a  period 
of  six  months  from  the  date  of  such  seizure ;  and  provided,  farther, 
that  the  board  of  pharmacy  may  dispose  of  all  narcotics  now  on  hand 
or  hereafter  coming  into  their  possession  (other  than  smoking  opium), 
either  by  gift  to  the  medical  director  of  California  state  prisons  or 
state  hospitals  or  by  sale  to  wholesale  druggists,  the  funds  received 
from  such  sales  to  be  applied  by  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  to  the  carrying 
out  the  provisions  of  this  act  or  of  the  act  creating  such  California 
State  Board  of  Pharmacy. 

Sec.  8c.  The  board  may  revoke  the  registration  of  any  registered 
pharmacist  or  assistant  pharmacist  upon  conviction  of  the  second 
offense  for  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  section  eight  or  eight  a 
of  this  act,  and  in  such  case  said  registration  shall  not  be  restored 
before  the  period  of  one  year  from  the  date  of  said  revocation. 

Sec.  8d.  The  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  is  hereby  charged  with  the 
enforcement  of  the  provisions  of  section  three  hundred  and  seven  of 
the  Penal  Code  and  all  fines,  moneys  or  forfeited  bail  imposed  far 
violation  of  said  section  upon  collection  shall  be  disposed  of  as  is 
provided  for  the  disposition  of  fines,  moneys  or  forfeited  bail,  in 
section  seven  of  this  act. 

Sec.  9.  The  sale  or  furnishing  of  carbolic  acid  (phenol)  in  quan- 
tities of  less  than  one  pound,  paregoric  in  quantities  of  more  than  one 
fluid  ounce,  is  prohibited  unless  upon  the  prescription  of  a  physician, 
dentist  or  veterinary  surgeon  duly  licensed  to  practice  in  this  state,  but 
this  prohibition  shall  not  apply  to  solution  of  carbolic  acid  (phenol) 
containing  not  over  ten  per  cent  of  the  carbolic  acid   (phenol)    and 


20  CALIFORNIA   STATE    BOARD   OF   PHARMACY. 

not  less  than  ten  per  cent  of  ethyl  alcohol.  All  sales  of  carbolic 
acid  (phenol)  thus  diluted  so  as  to  contain  no  more  than  ten  per  cent 
of  carbolic  acid  (phenol)  may  be  made  under  the  same  conditions  as 
the  drugs  enumerated  in  schedule  "B"  as  found  in  section  seven,  but 
sales  of  carbolic  acid  (phenol)  containing  more  than  ten  per  cent  of 
said  acid  shall  be  registered  subject  to  the  same  regulation  as  the 
poisons  enumerated  in  schedule  "A"  as  found  in  section  seven. 


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Note. — There  is  a  conflict  between  the  provisions  of  this  act  and  the  one  on 
pages  13  to  22.  The  one  on  pages  13  to  22  was  approved  later  than  the  one  below 
In  such  cases  we  are  advised  by  counsel  the  last  act  controls.  We  insert  act  below 
therefore  simply  as  a  matter  of  information,  and  with  the  advice  that  the  terms  of 
the  act  on  pages  13  to  22  will  be  adopted  by  the  Board  as  controlling  and  governing 
its  actions. 

An  act  to  amend  section  seven  of  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  regulate  the  sale  and 
use  of  poisons  in  the  State  of  California,  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the  viola- 
tion thereof,"  approved  March  6,  1907,  as  the  title  of  said  a;t  and  said  act  were 
amended  March  19,  1909,  and  as  said  act  was  amended  April  25,  1911,  and  as 
said  act  was  amended  June  11,  1913. 

The  people  of  the  State  of  California  do  enact  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Section  seven  of  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  regulate 
the  sale  and  use  of  poisons  in  the  State  of  California,  and  providing  a 
penalty  for  the  violation  thereof,"  approved  March  6,  1907,  as  the 
title  of  said  act  and  said  act  were  amended  March  19,  1909,  and  as  said 
act  was  amended  April  25,  1911,  and  as  said  act  was  amended  June  11, 
1913,  is  hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows : 

Sec.  7.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  sections  eight 
or  eight  a  of  this  act  shall  upon  conviction  be  punished  as  follows,  viz : 
for  the  first  offense  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars,  and 
not  to  exceed  four  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less 
than  fifty  clays  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  eighty  days,  or  by 
both  such  fine  and  imprisonment;  for  the  second  offense,  by  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  not  to  exceed  five 
hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than  ninety  days  and 
not  exceeding  six  months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment;  and 
for  the  third  offense  by  imprisonment  in  the  state  prison  for  not  less 
than  one  year  and  not  more  than  five  years.  Any  person  violating 
any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  except  those  contained  in  section 
eight  or  eight  a,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon 
conviction  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  thirty  dollars,  nor 
more  than  two  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  less  than 
thirty  days  and  not  more  than  fifty  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and 
imprisonment.  All  moneys  received  under  the  operation  of  this  act 
shall  be  paid  by  the  magistrate  receiving  the  same,  seventy-five 
(75%)  per  cent  to  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  and  twenty-five 
(25%)  per  cent  to  the  city  treasurer  of  the  city,  if  incorporated,  or 
to  the  county  treasurer  of  the  county  in  which  the  prosecution  is  con- 
ducted. The  following  is  schedule  "A"  referred  to  in  section  one, 
viz:  Shedule  "A,"  arsenic,  its  compounds  and  preparations,  corrosive 
sublimate,  and  other  poisonous  derivatives  of  mercury,  corrosive  sub- 
limate tablets,  antiseptic  tablets  containing  corrosive  sublimate,  cyanide 
of   potassium,   strychnine,   hydrocyanic    acid,   oils   of   croton,   rue   and 


22  CALIFORNIA   STATE   BOARD   OP.    PHARMACY. 

tansy,  phosphorus  and  its  poisonous  derivatives  and  compounds,  com- 
pound solution  of  cresol,  lysol,  strophanthus  or  its  preparations,  aconite, 
belladonna,  nux  vomica,  veratrum  viride,  their  preparations,  alkaloids 
or  derivatives,  ant  poison  containing  any  of  the  poisons  enumerated  in 
this  schedule.  It  is  provided,  however,  that  the  following  drugs,  medi- 
cines and  chemicals  may  be  sold  by  grocers  and  dealers  generally 
without  restriction,  viz :  Glauber  salts,  vaseline,  turpentine,  condition 
powders,  cream  of  tartar,  carbonate  of  soda,  bay  rum,  essence  of 
Jamaica  ginger,  essence  of  peppermint,  ammonia,  alum,  castor  oil, 
bicarbonate  of  soda,  chloride  of  lime,  glycerine,  witch-hazel,  sheep  dip, 
borax,  sulphur,  bluestone,  flaxseed,  insect  powder,  fly  paper,  ant  poison, 
squirrel  poison,  and  gopher  poison,  and  poisons  used  for  orchard 
spraying,  when  prepared  and  sold  only  in  original  and  unbroken 
packages  and  labeled  with  the  official  poison  labels  as  provided  in  and 
by  section  sixteen  of  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  regulate  the  practice  of 
pharmacy  in  the  State  of  California,"  approved  March  20,  1905,  as 
said  act  was  amended  March  21,  1907,  and  as  said  act  was  amended 
April  21,  1909,  known  as  the  "Pharmacy  Act";  it  being  the  intention 
and  purpose  of  this  act  that  its  provisions  shall  be  in  conformity  and 
harmony  with  the  provisions  of  said  pharmacy  act. 

The  following  is  schedule  "B":  Hydrochloric  or  muriatic  acid, 
nitric  acid,  oxalic  acid,  sulphuric  acid,  bromine,  chloroform,  cowhage, 
creosote,  ether,  solution  of  formaldehyde  or  formalin;  cantharides, 
cocculus  indicus,  all  their  preparations;  iodine,  or  its  tinctures,  oils  of 
savin  and  pennyroyal,  tartar  emetic,  and  other  poisonous  derivatives 
of  antimony,  sugar  of  lead,  sulphate  of  zinc,  and  wood  alcohol. 


STATUTES    RELATING    TO    ITINERANT    VENDORS.  23 

ITINERANT   VENDORS 


Chapter  233  (Stats.  1903,  p.  284),  approved  March  20.  1903. 
Chapter  422  (Stats.  1907,  p.  765),  approved  March  21,  1907. 
Chapter  277    (Stats.   1909,   p.   419),   approved   March   19.   1909. 

An  act  imposing   a   license  tax  upon   itinerant  vendors  of  drugs,   nostrums,   ointments, 
or  appliances  sold   for  the   cure   of  disease,   injuries,   or   deformities. 

The   people   of   the   State   of   California,   represented  in   senate   and 
assembly,  do  enact  as  follows: 

Section  1.  No  person  as  principal  or  agent,  shall  conduct  as  an 
itinerant  vendor  the  business  of  selling  or  in  any  manner  disposing  of 
drugs,  nostrums,  ointments  or  any  appliances  for  the  treatment  of 
disease,  deformities  or  injuries,  within  this  state,  without  previously 
obtaining  a  license  therefor  as  herein  provided. 

Sec.  2.  A  license  fee  of  one  hundred  dollars  is  hereby  levied  upon 
all  such  itinerant  vendors  doing  business  in  this  state.  Said  tax  shall 
be  paid  to  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  the 
State  of  California,  and  shall  constitute  a  special  fund  for  the  enforce- 
ment of  this  act,  and  of  the  provisions  of  the  act  or  acts  creating  such 
Board  of  Pharmacy.  Upon  the  receipt  of  said  sum  from  any  persons 
desiring  to  conduct  such  business  within  this  state,  the  secretary  of  said 
Board  of  Pharmacy  shall  issue  a  license  to  such  person  to  carry  on  such 
business  within  this  state  for  the  term  of  six  months  next  ensuing ;  pro- 
vided, that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  prevent  the  collec- 
tion of  any  tax  or  license  that  may  be  imposed  by  any  county  or  munici- 
pal authority;  and  provided,  further,  that  nothing  herein  contained 
shall  prevent  manufacturing  pharmaceutical  firms  from  placing  their 
products  on  the  market  through  their  agents  and  managers,  subject  to 
the  provisions  of  section  three  of  this  act.  The  said  Board  of  Pharmacy 
may  allow  such  license  to  be  transferred  during  the  life  thereof  on  such 
terms  as  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  may  deem  proper;  provided,  however, 
that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  held  to  repeal  or  modify  the  provisions 
of  an  act  approved  March  20,  1905,  entitled  "An  act  permitting  all 
ex-Union  soldiers  and  sailors  of  the  civil  war,  honorably  discharged 
from  military  or  marine  service  of  the  United  States,  the  right  to  vend, 
hawk  and  peddle  goods,  wares,  fruits  or  merchandise  not  prohibited  by 
law,  in  any  county,  town  or  village,  incorporated  city  or  municipality 
in  the  State  of  California,  without  paying  a  license." 

Sec.  3.  Itinerant  vendors  under  the  meaning  of  this  act  shall 
include  all  persons  who  carry  on  the  business  above  described  by  passing 
from  house  to  house,  or  by  haranguing  the  people  on  public  streets  or 
in  public  places,  or  use  the  various  customary  devices  for  attracting 


24  CALIFORNIA   STATE    BOARD   OF   PHARMACY. 

crowds  and  therewith  recommending  their  wares,  and  offering  them 
for  sale. 

Sec.  4.  Said  Board  of  Pharmacy  shall  on  the  first  day  of  July  of 
each  year  make  a  verified  and  itemized  statement  in  writing  to  the 
Controller  of  this  state,  of  all  receipts  and  disbursements  of  money 
coming  into  their  hands  by  reason  of  this  act. 

Sec.  5.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  who 
shall  without  such  license,  sell  or  offer  for  sale  any  of  the  above 
described  drugs,  nostrums,  ointments,  or  appliances,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  for  such  breach  of  this  act  upon  convic- 
tion therefor,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  hundred 
dollars  nor  more  than  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  or  by  imprison- 
ment in  the  county  jail  far  not  less  than  fifty  days  or  more  than  one 
hundred  and  twenty  days,  or  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment.  All 
fines  recovered  under  this  act  shall  be  paid  by  the  magistrate  receiving 
the  same  to  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  and  by  said  board  placed  in 
the  special  fund  created  by  section  two  of  this  act. 

Sec.  6.  In  all  actions  or  prosecutions  under  this  act  it  need  not  be 
alleged  in  the  complaint  nor  proved  by  the  prosecution  that  the  defend- 
ant has  not  a  license  as  required  in  this  act,  but  the  fact  that  he  has 
such  a  license  may  be  plead  as  a  matter  of  defense. 

Sec.  7.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  conflicting  with  this  act  are  hereby 
repealed,  in  and  so  far  as  they  conflict. 

Sec.  8.  This  act  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  sixty  days  after 
its  passage. 


STATUTES   RELATING    TO    HOURS    OF    PHARMACISTS.  25 

HOURS  OF   PHARMACISTS 


Chapter     34   (Stats.  1905,  p.     2S).  approved  February  28.  1905. 
Chapter  224   (Stats.   1907,  p.  273).  approved  .March  15,  1907. 

An  act  to  regulate  the  work  and  hours  of  employees  engaged  in  selling  at  retail  drugs 
and  medicines,  and  cormounding  physic:ans'  prescriptions,  and  providing  a 
penalty  for  the   violation   thereof. 

The    people    of   the   Stal<    of   California,   represented   in    senate   and 
assembly,  do  enact  as  follows: 

Section  1.  An  act  entitled  "An  act  to  regulate  the  work  and  hours 
of  employees  engaged  in  selling-  at  retail  drugs  and  medicines,  and  com- 
pounding physicians'  prescriptions,  and  providing  a  penalty  for  the 
violation  thereof,"  approved  February  28,  1005.  is  hereby  amended  by 
adding  thereto  a  new  section  to  be  known  and  numbered  section  five. 

Sec.  2.  As  a  measure  for  the  protection  of  public  health,  no  person 
employed  by  any  person,  firm  or  corporation,  shall  for  more  than  an 
average  of  ten  hours  a  day  or  sixty  hours  a  week  of  six  consecutive 
calendar  days,  perform  the  work  of  selling  drugs  or  other  medicines, 
or  compounding  physicians'  prescriptions,  in  any  store,  establishment 
or  place  of  business,  where  and  in  which  drugs  or  medicines  are  sold 
at  retail,  and  where  and  in  which  physicians'  prescriptions  are  com- 
pounded; provided,  that  the  answering  of  and  attending  to  emergency 
calls  shall  not  be  construed  as  a  violation  of  this  act. 

Sec.  3.  No  person,  firm  or  corporation  employing  another  person 
to  do  work  which  consists  wholly  or  in  part  of  selling,  at  retail,  drugs 
or  medicines,  or  of  compounding  physicians'  prescriptions,  in  any  store, 
or  establishment,  or  place  of  business  where  or  in  which  medicines  are 
sold,  and  where  and  in  which  physicians'  prescriptions  are  compounded, 
shall  require  or  permit  said  employed  person  to  perform  such  work 
for  more  than  an  average  of  ten  hours  a  day,  or  sixty  hours  a  week 
of  six  consecutive  calendar  days. 

Sec.  4.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  violating  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  misdemeanor  and  shall 
be  punished  therefor  by  a  fine  not  less  than  twenty  dollars  nor  more 
than  fifty  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  for  not  exceeding  sixty  days, 
or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Sec.  5.  The  commissioners  of  the  State  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 
are  hereby  authorized,  directed  and  empowered  to  enforce  the  provisions 
of  this  act. 

Sec.  6.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of 
this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 


26  CALIFORNIA    STATE    BOARD   OF   PHARMACY, 

OFFICIAL   ANTIDOTES 


Adopted    by    the    California    State    Board    of    Pharmacy,    April    24,    1S07.      Revised    and 

approved   June   3.   1913. 

Emetics. — When  a  physician  is  at  hand  the  most  prompt  emetic  and  the  one  most 
easily  administered  is  one-tenth  grain  apomorphine  hypodermically. 

Demulcent  Drinks. — Flaxseed  tea,  slippery  elm  tea,  barley  water,  thin  starch  water, 
etc.,  milk,  white  of  eggs  with  water. 

Acid,  Arsenous. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  hydrated  oxide  of  iron  a  cupful ;  follow  with  olive 
oil  or  white  of  eggs,  mucilaginous  drinks.  Laudanum  (20  drops)  if 
much  pain. 

Acid,  Carbolic. 

Dilute  alcohol  or  whisky,  and  albuminous  substances,  milk,  white  of 
eggs,  etc. 

Acid,  Hydrocyanic. 

Cold  water  to  head  and  spine.  Give  stimulants.  Inhalation  of 
ammonia.     Artificial  respiration. 

Acid — Muriatic,   Nitric,   Nitro-Muriatic,   Sulphuric. 

Give  no  emetics.  Give  at  once  large  draughts  of  water  or  milk. 
Soft  soap  or  soap  and  water,  or  white  of  eggs  beaten  up  with  water,  or 
give  olive  oil. 

Acid,  Oxalic. 

Give  chalk  or  whiting  (a  tablespoonful)  or  plaster  off  the  wall, 
suspended  in  water.  Emetic  of  mustard,  large  draughts  of  warm 
water,  olive  oil,  mucilaginous  drinks,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  Apply 
warmth  to  the  extremities. 

Aconite,  its  preparations  or  derivatives. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water;  then 
strong  tea  or  coffee  or  whisky.  Keep  patient  in  horizontal  position. 
Keep  up  artificial  respiration. 

Antimony,  and  its  preparations  (Tartar  Emetic). 

Assist  vomiting  with  warm  water,  give  tannin  or  tannates  (cold 
tea,  infusion  of  oak  bark),  freely. 

Antiseptic  Tablets  (Corrosive  Sublimate). 

Give  white  of  eggs,  flour  or  starch  mixed  with  water:  emetic  of 
mustard.  Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If 
needed  afterward,  demulcent  drinks. 


OFFICIAL    ANTIDOTES.  27 

Arsenic. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  hydrated  oxide  of  iron  a  cupful ;  follow  with 
olive  oil  or  white  of  eggs,  mucilaginous  drinks.  Laudanum  (20  drops), 
if  much  pain. 

Belladonna,  its  preparations  or  derivatives. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water ;  then 
strong  tea  or  coffee.     Arouse  patient  and  keep  him  in  motion. 

Bromine. 

If  inhalation:  Fresh  air.  inhalation  of  ammonia.  If  swallowed: 
Emetic,  starch,  followed  by  magnesia,  bicarbonate  of  soda,  white  of 
eggs,  milk,  flour  and  water. 

Cantharides. 

Avoid  oils.  Emetics  first  of  all.  Demulcents,  stimulants.  Employ 
artificial  heat,  externally. 

Chloral  Hydrate. 

Horizontal  position;  cold  water  to  head,  and  stimulants.  Emetic  of 
mustard. 

Chloroform. 

Horizontal  position ;  cold  water  to  head,  and  stimulants.  Emetic  of 
mustard. 

Cocculus  Indicus. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water.  Give 
pawdered  charcoal.  To  relieve  spasms  let  patient  inhale  pure  chloro- 
form or  give  chloral  hydrate  (25  grains) . 

Conium. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water ;  then 
strong  tea  or  coffee.     Arouse  patient  and  keep  him  in  motion. 

Corrosive  Sublimate. 

(rive  white  of  eggs,  flour  or  starch  mixed  with  water;  emetic  of 
mustard.  Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If 
needed  afterward,  demulcent  drinks. 

Corrosive  Sublimate  Tablets. 

Give  white  of  eggs,  flour  or  starch  mixed  with  water:  emetic  of 
mustard.  Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If 
needed  afterward,  demulcent  drinks. 

Cotton  Root,  and  its  preparations. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water,  strong 
tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.)  freely.  Keep  patient  in  hori- 
zontal position;  employ  warmth  and  friction  to  the  extremities,  arti- 
ficial respiration. 


28  CALIFORNIA    STATE    BOARD   OP    PHARMACY. 

Cowhage. 
Large  doses  of  olive  oil. 

Creosote. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  white  of  eggs  beaten  up  with  water,  olive  oil, 
magnesia,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.)  freely.  Keep  patient  in  horizontal 
position,  employ  warmth  and  friction  to  the  extremities. 

Croton  Oil. 

Give  white  of  eggs  or  flour  mixed  with  water,  emetic  of  mustard. 
Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If  needed,  demul- 
cent drinks. 

Cyanide  of  Potassium. 

Cold  water  to  head  and  spine.  Give  stimulants.  Inhalation  of 
ammonia.    Artificial  respiration. 

Digitalis,  its  preparations  and  derivatives. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water,  strong 
tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.)  freely.  Keep  patient  in  hori- 
zontal position ;  apply  warmth  and  friction  to  the  extremities ;  artificial 
respiration. 

Ether. 

Horizontal  position ;  cold  water  to  the  head,  and  stimulants.  Emetic 
of  mustard. 

Formalin,  or  solution  of  formaldehyde. 

Give  ammonia  in  diluted  solution  with  demulcent  drinks.  Also 
inhalations  of  ammonia. 

Fowler's  Solution. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  hydrated  oxide  of  iron  a  cupful ;  follow  with  olive 
oil  or  white  of  eggs,  mucilaginous  drinks.  Laudanum  (20  drops),  if 
much  pain. 

Gelsemium. 

Coffee,  brandy,  emetic  of  ipecac. 

Hyoscyamus,  its  preparations  or  derivatives. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water;  then 
strong  tea  or  coffee.     Arouse  patient  and  keep  him  in  motion. 

Iodine,  and  its  preparations. 

Give  starch,  white  of  eggs  or  flour  mixed  with  water;  emetic  of  mus- 
tard. Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If  needed, 
demulcent  drinks. 

Lysol. 

Dilute  alcohol  or  whisky,  and  albuminous  substances,  milk,  white  of 
eggs,  etc. 


OFFICIAL   ANTIDOTES.  29 

Nitroglycerine. 

Cold  to  head.  Horizontal  position.  Give  emetics  and  cathartics. 
Ergot. 

Nux  Vomica,  its  preparations  or  derivatives. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water.  Give 
powdered  charcoal.  To  relieve  spasms  let  patient  inhale  pure  chloro- 
form, or  give  chloral  hydrate  (25  grains). 

Oil  of  Bitter  Almonds,  Essential. 

Cold  water  to  head  and  spine.     Give  stimulants.     Inhale  ammonia. 

Phosphorus,  and  its  poisonous  derivatives. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  or  blue  vitriol  (3  grains),  every  five  minutes  until 
vomiting  occurs.  A  teaspoonful  of  old  thick  oil  of  turpentine  (avoid 
other  oils),  also  epsom  salts  half  ounce  in  tumblerful  of  water. 

Pennyroyal,  Oil  of. 

Give  white  of  eggs  or  flour  mixed  with  water;  emetic  of  mustard. 
Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If  needed,  demul- 
cent drinks. 

Red  Precipitate. 

Give  white  of  eggs,  flour  or  starch  mixed  with  water ;  emetic  of  mus- 
tard. Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If  needed 
afterward,  demulcent  drinks. 

Rue,  Oil  of. 

Give  white  of  eggs  or  flour  mixed  with  water;  emetic  of  mustard. 
Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If  needed,  demul- 
cent drinks. 

Savin,  Oil  of. 

(live  white  of  eggs  or  flour  mixed  with  water;  emetic  of  mustard. 
Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If  needed,  demul- 
cent drinks. 

Santonine. 

Evacuate  stomach ;  use  stimulants  and  emetics. 

Stropanthus,  and  its  preparations. 

Give  zinc  sulphate  and  mustard  as  emetics;  also  tannic  acid;  stimu- 
lants (brandy  or  whisky)  ;  epsom  salts. 

Strychnine. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water.  Give 
powdered  charcoal.  To  relieve  spasms  let  patient  inhale  pure  chloro- 
form, or  give  chloral  hydrate  (25  grains 


30  CALIFORNIA    STATE    BOARD    OF    PHARMACY. 

Sugar  of  Lead. 

Give  epsom  salts  (one-half  ounce)  dissolved  in  a  tumbler  of  water, 
emetic  of  mustard,  large  draughts  of  warm  water,  milk,  demulcent 
drinks  of  flaxseed  or  slippery  elm. 

Tansy,  Oil  of. 

Give  white  of  eggs  or  flour  mixed  with  water;  emetic  of  mustard. 
Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If  needed,  demul- 
cent drinks. 

Tartar  Emetic. 

Assist  vomiting  with  warm  water,  give  tannin  or  tannates  (cold  tea, 
infusion  of  oak  bark) ,  freely. 

Veratrum  Viride,  preparations  and  derivatives. 

Emetic  of  mustard,  followed  by  large  draughts  of  warm  water.  Then 
strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.)  freely.  Keep  patient  in 
horizontal  position ;  apply  warmth  to  the  extremities,  artificial  respir- 
ation. 

White  Precipitate. 

Give  white  of  eggs,  flour  or  starch  mixed  with  water ;  emetic  of  mus- 
tard. Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky,  etc.).  If  needed 
afterward,  demulcent  drinks. 

Wood  Alcohol. 

Give  warm  water  and  salt  (two  teaspoonfuls  to  a  tumblerful)  imme- 
diately. Repeat  at  short  intervals.  Stimulate  the  respiratory  move- 
ment, and  give  strong  coffee. 

Yellow  Jasmine. 

Coffee,  brandy,  emetic  of  ipecac  or  mustard. 

Zinc   Sulphate. 

Give  white  of  eggs,  flour  mixed  with  water,  baking  or  washing  soda, 
emetic  of  mustard.  Give  strong  tea  or  coffee,  stimulants  (whisky, 
etc.).     If  needed,  demulcent  drinks. 


No  antidotes  are  given  for  morphine,  codeine,  heroin,  opium,  and 
cocaine,  their  salts,  compounds  or  preparations,  or  hemp,  its  compounds 
or  preparations,  as  under  section  eight  of  the  poison  law  their  sale  is 
prohibited  except  on  the  prescription  of  a  duly  licensed  physician, 
dentist  or  veterinary  surgeon,  except  preparations  of  opium  contain- 
ing less  than  two  grains  of  opium  to  the  fluid  ounce. 

In  all  cases  of  poisoning,  a  physician  should  be  summoned  at  once. 
"When  a  physician  is  at  hand,  the  most  prompt  emetic,  and  one  of  the 
most  easily  administered,  is  one-tenth  grain  of  apomorphine  hypo- 
dermically. 

California  State  Board  of  Pharmacy, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 


CIRCULAR PHARMACY    LAW.  31 

CIRCULAR  OF  INFORMATION 


PHARMACY   LAW 

The  board  meets  at  least  quarterly  for  the  transaction  of  Date  of 

meetings. 

regular  business  and  conducting  examinations.  For  dates  of 
meetings,  apply  to  the  secretary  of  the  board,  San  Francisco, 
California. 

Every  application  for  registration,  whether  as  assistant,  licentiate,  Fees. 

or  on  credentials,  must  be  accompanied  by  a   fee  of $10  00 

For  licentiate   certificate    (if  granted),   an    additional 5  00 

For  registration   and  certificate  on   credentials   and  experience    (if 

granted),    an    additional 15  00 

For  temporary    certificate 3  00 

For  reissue   of   certificate 3  00 

For  re-registration    as    licentiate 2  00 

For  re-registration    as    assistant    1  00 

Fee  of  $10.00  which  accompanies  application  is  retained  in  ^ned 
all  cases. 

For  the  registration  of  an  apprentice,  no  fee  is  charged.      £le,e^pairi' 

All  fees  must  be  paid  when  applications  are  filed. 

If  you  have  had  three  years'  actual  experience  in  the  prac-  Pharma- 

•  •  />  -i  •  CClItlCJil 

tice  of  pharmacy  in  stores  where  the  prescriptions  of  medical  exam- 

*  J  ....  inations. 

practitioners  are  compounded  (actual  time  spent  m  a  reputa- 
ble college  of  pharmacy  being  counted)  you  may  be  examined 
by  this  board  for  registration  as  an  assistant  pharmacist. 

Applicants  will  be  registered  as  ' '  assistants ' '  upon  the  licen-  byCeen^a-s 
tiate  examination,  in  cases  where  the  ratings  justify  registra-  matlon- 
tion  as  such,  but  do  not  prove  sufficient  for  the  licentiate. 

Applicants   for   examination   as   assistant   making    (or  who  Assistants 

rr  on  lieen- 

have  made)  in  this  state  a  general  average  of  75  per  cent  not  tiate  exam- 

'  o  o  j.  inations. 

falling  below  60  per  cent  in  two  or  more  branches,  will  first 
be  registered  as  such,  and  if  (or  when)  they  have  had  five 
(or  more)  years'  experience  will  be  registered  as  licentiate 
without  further  examination  upon  filing  an  application 
therefor  and  paying  the  necessary  fee. 

If  you  have  had  five  years  such  experience  and  are  regis-  J^'J^. 
tered  as  assistant,  licentiate,  or  registered  pharmacist  in  any  licentiate 

x  examin- 

state  or  territory,  you  are  eligible  for  examination  as  a  licen-  "on. 
tiate  in  pharmacy.     The  same  examination  is  given  both  the 
licentiate  and  assistant.     The  licentiate,  however,  must   make 
a  general  average  of  75  per  cent  and  not  less  than  GO  per  cent 
in  two  or  more  branches;  and  the  assistant  65  per  cent  and 


32  CALIFORNIA    STATE   BOARD   OP   PHARMACY. 

not  less  than  50  per  cent  in  two  or  more  branches.     Applicants 
are  examined  in  the  following  branches :  chemistry,  materia 
medica,    pharmacy,    practical    pharmacy,    identification    and 
toxicology.     The  examination  requires  three  days. 
Must  All  applicants  for  registration  by  examination  must  fur- 

fiirnish  1  r  °  J 

photo.        nish  and  file  two  photographs  3  by  3^  inches  in  size,  taken 

within  sixty  days  preceding  the  date  of  application. 
Hours  The  experience  claimed  by  the  applicant  as  per  the  above 

experience,  three  sections  must  comprise  not  less  than  six  hours  per  day, 
or  thirty-six  hours  per  calendar  week    (usual  vacations  not 
deducted),    substantiated   by    affidavits   preferably   from   the 
persons  under  whom  the  experience  was  had,  or  by  others 
cognizant  of  the  facts, 
assistant"         -^  applications  must  be  accompanied  by  a  fee  of  $10.00. 
tiate lice"    -^°  fUI>ther  fee  is  required  from  the  assistant  for  issuance  of 
certificate;    but   when    registration    as   licentiate   is    granted, 
before  he  is  registered  as  such,  an  additional  fee  of  $5.00  must 
be  paid  for  issuance  of  certificate. 
fiurf  a°rii       ^n  or(^er  that  proper  investigation  of  applications  may  be 
cations.       made,  it  is  necessary  that  they  be  filed  at  least  five  days  before 

the  date  of  examinations, 
permiwo        ^ne  n^n&  °f  an  application  alone  does  not  permit  the  appli- 
Ppharmacy     cant  to  practice  pharmacy.     If  he  desires  to  do  this,  he  must 
apply  for  and  be  granted  a  temporary  certificate,  proceeding 
under  section  fourteen   of  the  pharmacy  law.     The   fee  for 
such  temporary  certificate  is  $3.00.     The  application,  properly 
executed,  with  a  fee  of  $10.00,  must  be  forwarded  to  the  sec- 
retary   of   the   board.     This    fee    is    retained    by   the    board 
whether   application   is    granted   or   denied.     If   granted,    an 
additional  fee  of  $5.00  must  be  paid  upon  issuance  of  certifi- 
cate.     (Pharmacy  law,  section  seven.) 
apply  for         Experience  gained  prior  to  the  age  of  fifteen  will  not  be 
examina-      allowed.     If  the  applicant  has  had  less  than  five  years  experi- 
tion.  ence,  but  over  three,  he  should  apply  for  registration  as  an 

False  regis-  assistant.  Any  person  who  shall  attempt  to  procure  registra- 
tion. ^on  ]Dy  faise  representation  is  liable  to  fine  and  imprisonment. 
Appiica-       (Pharmacy  law,  section  twelve.)     Applications  not  properly 

tions  not  _  .     .    .  .  „  ...  n 

properly      executed,  or  not  accompanied  by  the  proper  fee,  will  not  be 

made   out.  .  ,  , 

considered. 
Affidavits         The  time  set  forth  in  the  application  and  affidavits  must 

covering  c  r 

experience.  De  specific.  It  will  not  be  sufficient  to  state  from  1912  to 
1913  and  from  1913  to  1914.  but  must  state,  for  example, 
"from  January,   1912,  to  July,   1913,"  and  "from   August, 


CIRCULAR — PHARMACY    LAW.  33 

1913,  to  December,  1913,"  and  "from  January,  1914,  to  April, 
1914."  etc.,  as  accurately  as  can  be  determined. 

The  California  pharmacy  law  does  not  permit  the  board  to  ^l0^ifl. 
recognize  the  diplomas   of   any   college   of  pharmacy  or  the  ^^  °fol, 
certificates  of  any  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  for  the  purpose  {J0sae,Sds°r 
of  registration. 

No  application  for  examination  or  registration  for  licentiate  Proof  of 

?  xperienoe 

will  be  entertained  unless  the  applicant  furnishes  proof  of  not  for   n< 
less  than  five  years'  experience.       (Vide  section  four  of  the 
law. ) 

Candidates  for  examination  as  licentiate  or  assistant,  or  for  Educational 

require- 

registration  as  an  apprentice,  are  required  to  present  evidence  merits. 
of  having  completed  the  grammar  course  in  the  public  schools 
of  this  state,  or  credentials  of  equal  value,  or  a  certificate  of 
a  licensed  teacher  showing  qualifications  of  equal  value. 
Credit  will  not  be  given  for  pharmaceutical  experience  gained 
before  the  applicant  was  fifteen  years  of  age. 

The  pharmaceutical  examination  may  be  oral,  written,  and  subject 

*  .  examined 

practical.  Subjects :  chemistry,  toxicology,  pharmacy,  mate-  in. 
ria  medica,  identification  (of  drugs,  chemicals,  and  prepara- 
tions) ;  "practical,"  including  the  reading,  translating,  criti- 
cising, and  dispensing  of  prescriptions ;  the  use  of  metric 
weights  and  measures,  and  their  relation  to  apothecaries'  and 
avoirdupois  weights  and  wine  measure;  specific  gravity  and 
thermometry. 

Licentiates  by  examination  are  persons  who  have  had  five  Licentiates, 

^  ,  .  who    are 

years'  experience  in  stores  where  the  prescriptions  of  medical 
practitioners  are  compounded,  and  who  are  registered  as 
assistant  or  licentiate  in  this  or  some  other  jurisdiction,  and 
who  have  passed  the  examination  of  the  State  Board  of 
Pharmacy. 

Assistants  by  examination  are  persons  who  are  not  less  than  Assistants, 

J  c  who   are. 

eighteen  years  of  age,  who  have  had  not  less  than  three  years' 
instruction  and  experience  in  a  pharmacy,  or  who  have  been 
registered  as  an  apprentice  (vide  section  fifteen)  for  not  less 
than  three  years,  and  who  have  passed  a  satisfactory  exam- 
ination before  the  Board  of  Pharmacy. 

After  three  years'  apprenticeship   in   pharmacy,  a  person  Apprentice 
can  not  be  registered  as  an  apprentice,  but  must  take  the  exam-  re 
ination  as  assistant  pharmacist.     (Vide  section  fifteen.) 

Persons  of  good  moral  character  who  present  satisfactory 
evidence  to  the  board  that  they  have  bad  twenty  years'  actual 
experience  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy,  or  graduates  from  a 


34 


CALIFORNIA    STATE    BOARD    OF    PHARMACY. 


Registration 
on  creden- 
tials and 
experience, 
without 
written  ex- 
amination. 


Registra- 
tion, not 
granted 
upon. 


Re-Regis- 
tration 
fees. 


Blanks 
for    regis- 
tration. 


Applica- 
tions,  when 
not  ac- 
cepted. 
Re-issue    of 
certificate. 


Jury 

duly. 


Examination 
questions. 


recognized  college  of  pharmacy  after  eighteen  years  of  like 
experience,  who  can  produce  evidence  of  registration  as  licen- 
tiate or  assistant  in  some  state  or  territory  for  a  period  of  at 
least  ten  years,  may  be  registered  as  licentiates  by  the  board 
(vide  section  three).  Registration  under  this  section  will 
only  be  granted  by  the  board  after  personal  appearance  before 
it,  and  after  an  oral  examination  in  practical  pharmaceutical 
subjects  only,  and  the  requirements  of  the  law  will  be  applied 
with  the  utmost  strictness;  the  experience  must  be  actual, 
bona  fide,  and  to  the  full  time  requirements  of  the  law;  the 
college  must  be  a  recognized  college  of  pharmacy. 

Registration  is  not  granted  on  applications  founded  upon 
the  following: 

(a)     Certificates  from  other  boards  of  pharmacy. 

(6)  Diplomas  from  colleges  or  schools  of  pharmacy:  if  less 
than  eighteen  years'  experience. 

(c)  Certificates  showing  the  length  of  time  in  business;  if 
less  than  twenty  years. 

(d)  Petitions,  statements,  or  recommendations  from  physi- 
cians, public  officials,  influential  citizens,  or  others,  as  to 
ability,  character,  etc. 

(e)  Physicians  can  not  be  registered  as  pharmacists  on 
their  diplomas  or  credentials  as  physicians. 

Assistants  will  not  be  registered  on  certificates  of  having 
passed  examinations  by  colleges  of  pharmacy. 

Re-registration  fees  are  payable  yearly  on  or  before  the 
first  of  July. 

Fee  for  re-registration  as  licentiate $2  00 

Fee  for  re-registration  as  assistant  pharmacist-  1  00 

Blanks  for  application,  for  registering,  for  affidavits  and  for 
photographs  will  be  furnished  by  the  secretary  upon  request 
therefor.  When  filled  out  they  must  be  sworn  to  before  a 
notary  public,  and  returned  to  the  secretary,  with  the  fee,  at 
least  a  week  before  the  meeting. 

Applications  not  properly  executed,  or  not  accompanied  by 
the  proper  fee,  will  not  be  considered. 

In  case  of  loss  or  destruction  of  a  certificate,  a  duplicate 
may  be  obtained  by  forwarding  to  the  secretary  an  affidavit 
setting  forth  the  facts  in  the  case,  on  blank  forms  which  will 
be  provided.     Fee,  $3.00. 

All  persons  registered  under  the  Pharmacy  Act  are  exempt 
from  jury  duty. 

Sets  of  questions  are  not  kept  for  distribution. 


CIRCULAR PHARMACY    LAW.  35 

In  case  any  person  defaults  in  the  payment  of  his  or  her  Failure  t0 
registration  fee,  the  registration  may  be  revoked  by  the  Board  jf™1™?, 
of  Pharmacy  on  sixty  days'  notice,  in  writing  from  the  secre-  J^"^ 
tary,  unless  within  said  time  the  fee  is  paid,  together  with 
such  penalty  not  exceeding  $10.00,  as  the  board  may  impose. 

Every  registered  pharmacist  and  assistant  pharmacist  who 
desires  to  retain  his  registration  on  the  books  must  pay  the 
respective  re-registration  fees  on  or  before  the  first  day  of 
July  of  each  year.  If  failure  is  made  in  so  doing  for  sixty 
days,  such  registration  may  be  revoked  by  the  board  and  he 
may  be  reinstated  only  by  qualifying  in  the  regular  manner, 
by  examination  or  on  credentials. 

Registration  may  also  be  revoked,  and  license  canceled,  if  Revoca- 
the  holder  thereof  has  been  convicted  of  a  violation  of  the  pro-  registration, 
visions  of  the  pharmacy  law  three  times  or  for  habitual  intem- 
perance, addiction  to  the  use  of  narcotic  drugs,  conviction  of 
a  felony,  or  upon  second  conviction  of  a  violation  of  sections 
8  or  8a  of  the  poison  law. 

Every  pharmacist  and  everv  assistant  must  have  his  eertifi-  Recording 

.  .  .  of    original 

cate  registered  with  the  county  clerk  (vide  section  nine).  It  certificate. 
need  be  recorded  only  once  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk 
of  the  county  where  he  is  engaged  in  business.  If  he  removes 
to  another  county,  he  must  have  it  recorded  in  the  county  to 
which  he  moves.  It  must  be  recorded  once  in  each  county 
where  the  holder  thereof  does  business. 

Every  person  must  keep  his  last  receipt  for  re-registration  Re-registra- 
conspicuously  exposed  in  his  place  of  business.     (Vide  sec-  cate  ex- ' 

.  ,  nosed. 

tion  ten.) 

Every  person  registered  under  the  law  shall,  if  he  change  chai 
his  place  of  business,  notify  the  secretary  of  the  Board  of  '" 
Pharmacy  of  his  new  address. 

A  duly  licensed  physician  may  supply  his  own  patients,  as  Vh 
their  physician   and  by  them   employed  as  such,   with  such  patfentsg 
remedies  as  he  may  desire,  but  he  may  not  keep  an  open  shop  dies.  "' 
or  pharmacy  for  the  sale  of  medicines.     (Vide  section  twelve.) 

For  explanation  of  what  is  considered  under  the  law  as  a 
pharmacy,  see  section  one. 

An    assistant    pharmacist   can   not   legally   conduct   a   drug  i, 

store  or  pharmacy,  and  may  be  left  in  charge  of  a  pharmacy  uf  charge 

only  during  the  temporary  absence  of  the  registered  pharma-  macy. 

cist,  who  must  be  within  call. 

Temporary  absence  is  defined  by  the  law  to  moan  only  those  Temporary 
,  '  '  absence 

unavoidable  absences  which  mav  occur  during  a  day's  work,  deflne* 


36  CALIFORNIA   STATE   BOARD   OF   PHARMACY. 

and  when  the  registered  pharmacist  in  charge  shall  be  within 
immediate  call  ready  and  able  to  assume  the  direct  supervision 
of  said  pharmacy. 
Apprentice        Persons  desiring  to  be  registered  as  apprentices  under  sec- 

registra-  °  °  ^^ 

tion.  tion  fifteen  of  the  pharmacy  law  must  present  to  the  board 

evidence  of  having  completed  the  grammar  course  in  the 
public  schools  of  this  state,  or  credentials  of  equal  value.  No 
pharmaceutical  experience  will  be  allowed  before  the  appli- 
cant was  fifteen  years  of  age. 

schooling6       -^  graduates  of  a  grammar  (or  high)  school,  the  certificate 

tioiilfica  under  oath  of  the  principal  or  other  person  knowing  the  fact 
will  be  received.  Otherwise  they  must  furnish  a  certificate 
from  some  competent  regularly  certificated  teacher  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  this  state,  that  they  have  examined  the  applicant 
and  find  his  education  equal  to  that  required  to  be  graduated 
from  a  grammar  school.  Complete  blanks  will  be  furnished 
on  application.     Apprentices  are  not  charged  any  fees. 

General  Dealers  other  than  pharmacists  are  not  permitted  ta  sell 

merchants  x  r 

deUing  drugs,  poisons,  medicines,  or  chemicals  fox  medicinal  use 
medicines.  imiess  their  store  is  more  than  three  miles  from  the  store  of  a 
registered  pharmacist,  and  in  that  event  they  must  obtain 
from  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  a  permit  so  to  do,  which  permit 
shall  name  the  drugs,  the  manner  and  form  in  which  they  may 
be  sold,  and  for  which  an  annual  fee  of  $5.00  is  charged. 
(Vide  section  sixteen.) 
owner  of        Anv  person  is  permitted  to  own  a  pharmacy,  but  he  must 

pharmacy.  ■     c  x  x 

who°  is  not  place  a  registered  pharmacist  in  charge  of  said  store  and 
keep  one  there  at  all  times.  (Vide  section  thirteen.)  By 
being  in  charge,  the  board  holds,  means  having  direction  of 
the  pharmaceutical  affairs  of  said  pharmacy. 

Require-  Anv  person  making  application  for  registration  on  creden- 

ments  to  -     l  o       jrx 

regdteti  is"  ^^  an(*  exPerience>  must  appear  m  person  before  the  board 
and  experi-  a^  a  resrular  meeting,  or  his  application  can  not  be  considered. 

ence     with- 


out written  jje  must  file  an  application  on  a  regular  form  provided  by 

GXtiniinii-  t 

ti0M-  the  board,   properly  sworn  to,  and  furnish  the  board  with 

affidavits  from  responsible  persons  or  firms  covering  the  time 
such  person  or  firm  can  testify  of  their  own  knowledge  that 
the  applicant  has  been  actually  engaged  in  stores  where  the 
prescriptions  of  medical  practitioners  were  compounded,  also 
must  pass  a  satisfactory  oral  examination  in  practical  phar- 
maceutical subjects  only. 

The  affidavits  must  cover,  in  the  aggregate,  a  period  of  at 
least  twenty  years,  unless  the  applicant  is  a  graduate  of  a 
recognized  college  of  pharmacy,  in  which  case  the  affidavits 


CIRCULAR — PHARMACY    TAW.  37 

must  cover  a  period  of  not  less  than  eighteen  years,  which  may 
include  college  experience.  For  periods  of  two  years  or  less 
one  affidavit  will  be  sufficient ;  for  periods  of  more  than  two 
years  but  less  than  ten,  two  affidavits  will  have  to  be  fur- 
nished; for  periods  of  ten  years  or  over  three  affidavits  will 
be  required.  Affidavits  from  immediate  members  of  the 
applicant's  family  will  not  be  accepted.  Evidence  must  also 
be  presented  showing  registration  in  good  standing,  for  not 
less  than  ten  years,  in  same  state  or  territory.  A  fee  of  $10.00 
must  accompany  the  application,  which  fee  is  for  investigation, 
and  is  retained  by  the  board  whether  the  application  is 
granted  or  not.  If  granted,  an  additional  fee  of  $15.00  must 
be  paid  for  registration  and  issuance  of  certificate.  The  appli- 
cant may  be  examined  as  a  licentiate  without  further  fee  for 
application.  The  diploma  of  a  college  of  pharmacy  or  certifi- 
cates of  registration  of  other  states  are  supplementary  cre- 
dentials, but  are  not  necessarily  evidence  of  actual  practical 
experience. 

No  person  making  application  for  registration  on  creden-  ^X'at?' 
tials   can    practice   pharmacy   until   his   application   has   been  g°ntfp}£. 
acted  on  by  the  board.     If  the  board  is  not  in  session,  he  must  ^^den- 
take  out  a  temporary  certificate.     Fee,  $3.00.     If  a  temporary  tials- 
permit  is  granted  the  applicant  must  at  the  time  of  receiving 
such  permit  also  file  an  application  for  permanent  registration 
and  pay  the  fee  of  ten  ($10.00)  dollars  therefor. 

Any  member  of  the  board  or  duly  authorized  inspector  may  ^XaS 
issue  a  temporary  certificate,   after  examination,  which  will  ^™  ™& 
be  good  for  not  to  exceed  four  months.     Only  one  temporary  issue- 
certificate  can  lie  issued  to  the  same  applicant.     Fee  for  same, 
$3.00.     Where  the   board   lias   denied  a  person's  application 
no    temporary    certificate    can    be     granted.     (Vide    section 
fourteen.) 

Pharmacists  arc  requested  to  promptly  report  any  violations  itinerant 

i  i  i      ,         x  .  vendor    no 

of  the  itinerant  vendor  law  to  the  board,  and  the  board  will  lalil"ls- 
cause  the   prosecution   of  all  such  violations. 

Blanks  for  all  purposes  required  will  be  furnished  by  the  ^M?l3.for 
secretary  of  the  board  upon  application.  ,,"SI'S- 


38  CALIFORNIA    STATE    BOARD    OP    PHARMACY. 

POISON  LAW. 


Sens™         Poisons  may  only  be  sold  or  dispensed  by  duly  registered 

poisons.      pharmacists  or  duly  registered  assistant  pharmacists. 

Labels  and       The  label  must  be  printed  in  red  letters  on  white  paper  or 

antidotes  .  ^    r 

for  poisons,  vice  versa:  must  contain  the  name  of  the  article,  the  "vignette" 

representing  the  skull  and  cross-bones;  the  antidote,  and  the 

name  and  address  of  the  person  or  firm  furnishing  the  same. 

The  list  of  antidotes  for  all  poisons  shall  be  furnished  by 

the  board,  and  only  the   antidotes  so  specified  shall  appear 

upon  the  label. 

be0ir°egis-t0       A11  Poisons  mentioned  in  schedule  "A"  or  additions  thereto 

tered.         must  be  entered  in  the  poison  register. 

nol'neces-        ^e  list  of  poisons  mentioned  in  schedule  "B"  need  not  be 
register       registered,  but  the  poison  label  with  proper  antidote,  etc.,  shall 

be  affixed. 
mOTphtae         ^e  sa*e  °^  morphme-  codeine,  heroin,  opium,  and  cocaine, 
cocahle  and  alPna  and  Deta  eucaine,  nova  caine,  their  salts,  compounds  or 
cotk  drags,  preparations,     and    hemp,     its    preparations    or    compounds 
(except  corn  cures  as  designated  in  section  8a  of  the  poison 
law),  is  prohibited,  unless  upon  the  prescription  of  a  physi- 
cian,  dentist,  or  veterinary  surgeon,   licensed  to  practice  in 
this  state,  except  preparations  of  opium  containing  less  than 
two  grains  of  opium  to  the  fluid  or  avoirdupois  ounce.     Pos- 
session of  these  drugs,  except  under  conditions  provided  for  in 
section  eight  of  the  poison  law,  is  illegal.     (Vide  section  eight.) 
ttonTcon-       Prescriptions  for  certain  narcotic  drugs  can  not  be  refilled 
cotic"s  "ar  ^  °^  more  than  a  given  strength,  nor  can  proprietaries  con- 
drugs-         taining  more  than  the  amount  of  such  narcotic  mentioned  in 
section    eight,   be    dispensed    or   sold.     (Vide   section   eight.) 
Copies  of  narcotic  prescriptions  can  not  be  given  except  upon 
the  written  order  of  the  physician  writing  the  same. 
re'fster  ^e  poison  register  must  always  be  open  for  inspection  by 

Section    an^  memDer  of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  or  duly  authorized 
boused" fw  inspector  or  officer  of  the  law. 

poisons  N°  poisons  shall  be   sold  or   delivered  to  any  person  who 

is  less  than  eighteen  years  of  age. 


Date 

and 

hour. 


Name  Kind 

ol  Residence.  and 

purchaser.    '  quantity. 


Purpose 
ol  use. 


Signature    ,  Signature 

of  of 

druggist.      purchaser. 


Carbolic  Carbolic  acid  (phenol)  in  quantities  of  one  pound  or  more 

acid,     how  x  r  *  A 

to  be  sold.  may    De   soid   undiluted,    but    in   quantities   of   less   than   one 


CIRCULAR PHARMACY    LAW.  ,39, 

pound,  must  be  in  solution  containing  not  more  than  ten  per 
cent  carbolic  acid  (phenol)  and  not  less  than  ten  per  cent 
ethyl  alcohol.       (Vide  section  nine.) 

When  sold  undiluted  in  quantites  of  one  pound  or  over,  it 
must  be  registered,  but  the  ten  per  cent  solution  need  not  be 
registered. 

The  sale  of  paregoric  in  quantities  of  more  than  one  fluid  howStoC'be 
ounce  is  prohibited.  sold- 

Address  all  communications  intended  for  the  board, 

SECRETARY, 

California  State  Board  of  Pharmacy, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


N.  B. — The  following  laws  are  not  under  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  Board  of  Pharmacy.  For  information  regarding  them, 
address  as  indicated: 

Pure  Food  and  Drug  Law:  "Secretary  of  State  Board  of  SSS* k52b? 

Health,  Sacramento,  Cal." 

Ten-Hour   Law :    ' '  State   Labor   Commissioner,    San   Fran-  Ten-Hour- 
cisco,  Cal." 

Insecticide  Act:  "Department  of  Agriculture,  University  of  insectide 
California.  Berkeley,  Cal." 


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